This article is out of touch with what it's like to not yet be a financially independent, respected, and successful entrepreneur.
Making a few million dollars, one path to which is selling a company, solves a huge number of problems. You stop worrying about making rent, take a year off and start something new without worrying about a paycheck, return to school to change careers without risk, have children and afford a babysitter, build the company you want to even if you don't have confidence it will succeed, hire a maid, have a lawyer do your taxes, have price insensitive vacations, wear fancy hats and expensive suites and deign to tell people how little difference money made in your life, ... shall I go on?
Making a few million dollars, one path to which is selling a company, solves a huge number of problems. You stop worrying about making rent, take a year off and start something new without worrying about a paycheck, return to school to change careers without risk, have children and afford a babysitter, build the company you want to even if you don't have confidence it will succeed, hire a maid, have a lawyer do your taxes, have price insensitive vacations, wear fancy hats and expensive suites and deign to tell people how little difference money made in your life, ... shall I go on?