Do you know why programmers don't show off their wealth?

It's not that programmers don't show off their wealth, but that showing off their wealth is different from outsiders. 1. Some people put their mechanical keyboards with red axis, tea axis, green axis and black axis in the circle of friends. Who would think that they are showing off their wealth? 2. Someone is drying his locker. Who thinks it's showing off wealth? 3. Some people bask in their newly bought rowing machine, who thinks it is showing off their wealth? In fact, you can think about how big a house it is to buy a rowing machine in your own home. 4. with MAC BOOK PRO, every generation of iPhone has gone up. This code farmer is too lazy to spread the circle of friends. 5. There are a lot of lenses in a cabinet of coders who play photography, but they only shoot their own films. Yes, they only shoot technology and don't shoot tools. 6. Those who play headphones, listen to it for10,000 yuan, and bask in friends? Who thinks it's showing off wealth? 7. After they have a house, they won't bask in smart homes. Is there anything wrong with this idea of showing off wealth? In short, people are willing to spend money, all on hobbies. If they are not good friends, they don't know how much their pile of things is worth. Someone will say that you spend so much money on that pile of things after learning the price! !

During my years at Google, I met many programmers who joined the company before IPO. However, they don't show off their wealth, and sometimes even give people a shabby feeling. For example, my good friend C has a three-digit number of employees and tens of millions of dollars in assets. This American boy wears all kinds of free T-shirts with company logo all year round, and his favorite ones are worn out. He rented an apartment for the elderly in Mountain View 1B 1B and drove a Toyota Prius to work on weekdays. Later, in order to find a boyfriend (he is gay), he moved to San Francisco from Mountain View, a big rural area that is not suitable for dating, and even sold his only car, because he thought it was too expensive and troublesome to keep a car in San Francisco, so he might as well take Caltrain to work and rent zipcar on weekends. After leaving Google, he joined a medical technology startup. The reason is not to get rich by going public at all, but simply to help them form a team and strive to improve the backward medical insurance system in the United States. When you can see people with higher aspirations everywhere, you have no face (and capital) to show off your wealth.

Once, I just bought a 15-inch MacBook Pro, and wanted to show off my wealth, so I sent a photo of my work in a circle of friends. MacBook Pro plus dual large-screen monitors, plus HHKB keyboard, plus Beats headphones, Apple mouse, all kinds of genuine hand-made small objects, the total value was already very rich in my opinion at that time. In order to appear high-end, the terminal and code displayed on the screen, plus a low-key and meaningful narration about the usual working environment, have worked hard ... The effect is obvious, and soon I received many comments: my relatives, family members and friends outside the circle basically replied: I am tired of work, pay attention to rest so many screens, pay attention to my health ... I can't bear it, but they don't understand the goods. At least there are many friends in the circle of friends. The theme is pretty cool. You used the beat? This thing is the biggest insult to headphones. I suggest you change the xxxx experience and kill your broken headphones in minutes. Edit or Atom, don't use Sublime. Your code specification is quite neat, and you have learned it. ..... Never show off your wealth again!

Because the IT industry is very deep, you think you are the project manager of Baidu, with a monthly salary of 30,000-40,000, but you don't know that the small employees of Tencent's online game project team earn more money than you. You think you are a member of Tencent's online game project team, and you have made a lot of money because of the popularity of the project, but you don't know that Xiao Zhang, who left last year, founded his own game company, specializing in overseas mobile games, and has bought a car and a house to achieve financial freedom. You think you have the courage. When he met a good opportunity, Xiao Zhang, who made a profit by exporting mobile games and realized wealth freedom, didn't know about your GG Bond classmate with a monthly salary of only 3,000 yuan. Because the Java code was beautifully written and the format was neat, he secretly bought a building for his mother to be a downtown hotel.

People who show off their wealth may show you a watch and a car, all of which can be bought. Isn't it just to brag and tell others that you are very capable? This climax is caused by external stimuli. However, if Cheng changes a code, it may be able to save a big enterprise and feed a small town. Sometimes, just like a magician, you don't have to carry a machete to the streets to save your life, and you don't have to buy a bunch of vain leather and gold chains to hang yourself all over your body. They can squat at home and command the world. This sense of accomplishment is probably called seeking defeat alone, and this kind of showing off wealth is probably called low-key luxury with connotation. All kinds of heroes in their rivers and lakes are fighting, and they are swept out of the house after changing a line of code. Right is right, wrong is wrong, IQ, experience and ability are completely fair competition, rational and brilliant fair competition. This cool, pretentious, glib everyman certainly doesn't understand. Of course, there is no need to show off your wealth online. The net you pretend to show off your wealth every day is built and maintained by their magic. In their eyes, you dance with all the signs of outlets on it, just like a naked turkey.