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> $182,000 don't make for a life changing hustle.

That's half a millennium's income for the billion people on the planet who live on a dollar a day. There are plenty of folks for whom a few thousand dollars is life-changing.

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Unless the person in question took the money and ran off to join a tribe in Africa or similar for the rest of their days, the point still stands.

I've been to a lot of places in Latin America that have roads, and modern construction houses, electricity, water, and cell connections where $182k would last you a very VERY long time. decades easily. I met a man in Peru with a restaurant directly on the Panamerican, and two taxis who was doing very well for himself earning $5k a year...

And it's pretty easy to leave everything you have and know behind, and start over in a new country where standards of living are totally different.

With the principle of charity in mind I'd interpret Red_Tarsius's comment as saying "$182,000 don't make for a life changing hustle under B's circumstances", not "$182,000 don't make for a life changing hustle for anyone".

Anyone who thinks $180,000 is not life changing: please feel free to send me just 0.55% of that which would make my life considerably easier for at least the next year.

There are many Americans for whom $1,000 would be actually life changing -- allowing them to escape the bizarrely restrictive chain of courtroom imposed debt found in places like Fergusson.

Yes, if you were a Chinese peasant maybe making $8 an hour at McDonald's would sound great too, but that's not really meaningful to most of the people posting here.

In a country where people would kill you just for an iphone(and I'm not talking about China here), $182,000 is a lot of money.

> but that's not really meaningful to most of the people posting here

not sure on what planet you are living on. Most people here don't make that kind of money in a year.

I'd bet the vast majority of people here see $180k in four years or less. Talking about it in terms of people living on less than a dollar a day isn't really that meaningful for us.

180k$ USD, if I plan well, will last me ten years. By third-world standards, I live like a rich noble from Siliconvalleystan. If I didn't have a SO and knew where I could get a fake replacement identity quickly enough? Yep, the 180k sounds pretty good. Especially since going to "prison" for two years where I live is the worst punishment I'd get, and that's basically synonymous with "Big Continuous Frat Party with Free Room & Board, sports fields and exterior barbecue (with weekly beer party) included!".

I'd bet the missing creator just moved to Canada.

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