having one or two million in silicon valley might just make you comfortable
I take it you've never been to (e.g.) Palo Alto?
I have been there.
O.k. Let me see if I can attempt to 'splain my assertion to you.
There are a lot of people who don't have shit in regards to investments or savings (even if we account for home ownership, too), and surely having any kind of investment portfolio is going to be a whole hell of a lot more than many people, even in the US of A, where we have way more access to credit and financial services than so many people on the planet. However, many of us still have a lot of difficulties building some kind of investment portfolio.
Here's a decent article on the topic of the lack of current investment savings on average, even including some of the better off categorizing.
So, in that regard, even just having a mediocre investment portfolio of $1 million or $2million (Let's say 1.5 Million, which is in the middle) is going to put these kinds of people way in front of the vast majority of other people (maybe even 3x or more of the average of the better off of the folks coming on retirement), whether we are talking about silicon valley or other places in the country. And, for sure, the cost of living for any particular area is going to hamper the extent to which the accumulated amount of wealth meets either "fuck you" status or "filthy rich" status.
There are places in the world in which $1.5 million, (and maybe even some places in the USA - so long as a guy/gal has fairly humble needs) would allow a kind of entry level "fuck you" status, even if there might be some questions regarding future value of such dollar denominated amounts, but there still might be ways in which a BTC portfolio might have decent chances of being able to outperform the value of the dollar in terms of maintaining its value in dollar denominated terms.
You (picnic bear) and I could go on and on in regards to various details, but I maintain that my point still stands regarding the fact that having $1.5 million in investment capital still would allow someone to be much more comfortable than the average American who tends to have inadequately been able to build up any kind of meaningful investment portfolio, whether we are referring to bitcoin or to other assets that might be in their quasi-liquid portfolio... and whether we are referring to Palo Alto or any other place in the country... of course, they are going to need more in Palo Alto, yet $1.5 million puts them in a decent position.
Another problem that people have is to have a lot of their investment in their house, and I suppose I was presuming that quasi-liquid investment assets might have advantages over having assets in the personal home, presuming that the investment is actually owned (equity value) by the person, rather than being owned largely by the bank... but I was not really going into details regarding that, and merely presuming a kind of additional comfort that comes from having $1.5 million as compared to the average american that has little to no savings in terms of a quasi-liquid investment portfolio.
Can you find it deep down inside of ur little selfie
(maybe the non-argumentative portion of picnic bear to the extent that it might exist way on the deep down inside? hahahahahahaha) to appreciate what I am saying, Picnic bear? I was not really trying to argue "fuck you" status, but just a kind of supplementation status that a $1.5million dollar investment portfolio provides that might end up putting such hypothetical person in a better position than the average american, even if living in an expensive part of the country (such as palo alto, and maybe even if it might be more prudent for them to move to San Jose or some outlying area that is going to be a bit less expensive than Palo Alto specifically, which was still in the silicon valley as I had mentioned in the first place.. rather than Palo alto, specifically).