Money doesn’t matter, so long as you are among the wealthiest 5%

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

Sasha Pasulka tries to make the case that men don’t need to work themselves to death, nor get really rich, to consider themselves successful, but she is inconsistent in her view of the importance of the material:

He could easily bring in a low six-figure income at any number of large firms, but he’s somehow got it ingrained that he has to start a wildly successful tech company and make an enormous amount of money in order to be worthy of happiness.

I assume Sasha Pasulka moves in elite circles, where guys who only make salaries in the low 6 figures are dudes who are just chillin and taking life easy. But in truth, any such person has an income better than 95% of the population. And of the people who have the ambition to make it into the top 5%, it is normal to find a lot of people who have the ambition to make it into the top 0.01%.

If Sasha Pasulka wanted to be intellectually consistent, she could argue that money is a poor way to measure one’s life, and therefore its okay for a guy to make any level of income. But if you think there is some cut off point – $75,000 or maybe $50,000 or maybe $25,000 – and any guy below that point is a total loser, then you are still promoting the view that money matters and the more money, the better.

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    http://www.seattle20.com/blog/Hey-Guys-It-s-Totally-Okay-If-You-Don-t-Get-Rich.aspx
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