pauper

Adams was a pauper at only $20 million.

I thought Mozart was buried in a pauper's grave in accordance with the tradition of the day.

Pragmatists would say that a happy exploitee with some bucks in his pocket is better than a miserable pauper.

In the end, investors will own most of SpaceX, Musk will be a pauper relative to his current wealth but on Mars, and everyone will be happy.

The people getting rich are creating more divide than there ever was, but also the expectations on those who achieve that level have gone up. SV is in flux as no other place on the planet has as much potential to make you a millionaire or a pauper in a 2 year time.

Now why was that necessary?Poster makes a valid point $10 daily will buy you an existence that looks positively palatial to some, and near a pauper to others.

What I found most interesting about Biz Stone's story was that it felt like I was rooting for him rather than feeling like he was hustling me. As entrepreneurs, we all have the "pauper" backstory and lifestyle but sometimes we have to project where we want to be.

Are you saying there was one break he had that really was the difference between his being a mega-successful A-list standup comedian and being a struggling pauper?

Get a PhD, or get a high paying job and do interesting stuff of weekends, or do your "self-directed" work as a pauper with option to do a startup or open source project that gets you a job later.