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Originally Posted by Just a guy
Sorry for the delay. Again I am speaking from my observations of real people that I have directly interacted with. This has lead to my perspective.
How many top corporate leaders or ultra rich have you interacted with enough to know how they actually live? I see a lot of people on here responding to what sou ds like a narrative rather than experience.
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I don't know any wealthy people personally. But when I worked for Dell, I interacted professionally with plenty of top execs. Up to the level that reported Directly to Michael Dell. And in my experience, the higher up they were, the more likely they were to blow tons of company money flying around attending meetings they didn't need to be at. In my time in the corporate world, that was pretty standard.
I am back in higher ed at a major university and while the leaders here are not particularly high wealth individuals, I still find that the higher up they are, the more time they spend on travel and networking and appearences.
And in both situations, I would take a single mom juggling multiple part time jobs and kids over any of those execs in terms of hard work. And unless the billionaire class suddenly bucks the trend, I can't imagine there's many much that would change that. There's a difference between actually working hard, and schmoozing with other elite.