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> This is something practically everybody in the US has.

You might be surprised. It is a valid fear, and I suspect folks that are older, and have families, may feel that way, but a lot of highly-paid, young professionals don't seem to understand that.

You will see this in action, as more and more tech companies start laying off their engineers.

I started off very humbly, and am constantly around folks that don't have a pot to piss in (and some of them used to be millionaires).




Young people don't understand risk.

They imagine they are well-paid, but their fraction of company revenue is small enough that, all added up, it leaves enough to make the C-suiters billionaires.

Many of them will begin to learn, soon.




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