你认识的最有钱的人靠什么养家糊口？

Sams_lost_shoe
Owns a company that goes in and strips down stores that have shut down for whatever reason.

拥有一家公司，业务是去那些因为各种原因关门的店铺里面，把里面的东西倒腾干净。

Removes any product left behind, all the display racks, all the equipment, etc. All that's left when his crews are through is the walls, floors, plumbing, and wiring.

剩下的产品，所有的展示柜，所有的设备，等等，全都拿走。在他的人忙活完之后，剩下的就只有墙壁，地板，水管和电线。

Not only does he get paid to remove all of that, he then gets to auction off the stuff he removed for more money, and sells off any scrap metal as well.

他不止靠拆掉这些东西挣钱，他还能把自己拆下来的东西拍卖了挣到更多的钱，而且还能把废旧金属也卖了。

Ken-the-pilot
Similar vein, but strictly the removal, cataloging, disposing of (if asked/required) and storage of all of the documents and computers of said-closed down businesses. The guy started the company on a whim, and became a multi millionaire. Super cool and down to earth dude too.

我认识的也差不多，但只负责把这些关门的企业里面所有的文件和电脑带走，分类并处置（如果有要求的话）。这人是突发奇想开的这家公司，然后就变成了百万富翁。他是个很酷的人，也很接地气。

HotndSquishyy
Owns a small regional construction company. They do mostly smaller projects in the 300K-3M range but he does a LOT of them and a BUNCH at once. He makes somewhere in the neighborhood of 150K a month. He's also kind of a shit businessman and runs his firm like a corn dog stand. I'll never understand his success, frankly.

是一家小型地区性建筑公司的老板。他们干的基本都是三十万到三百万的小工程，但是他会承包特别多工程，并且同时承包好几个。他差不多一个月挣十五万。而且他是那种不太擅长做生意的，把自己的企业搞得像个路边摊一样。说实话我永远也没法理解他是怎么成功的。

He's rich in spite of his best efforts not to be.

他特别有钱，哪怕他已经尽全力让自己别那么有钱了。

He's a great guy, though. Generous to a fault.

但他确实是个好人。慷慨得简直算是种缺点。

Rattle_Can
sounds like a good man. i hope he finds success everywhere he goes.

听起来是个好人。我希望他到哪儿都能成功。

plytime18
He is succssful because people like him, enjoy his way, and probably his honesty and generosity - they can feel he is a grea guy, and so why NOT support him?

他能成功，是因为人们喜欢他，享受他做事情的方式，并且可能也喜欢他的诚实和慷慨——他们能感觉到他是个好人，所以为什么不支持他呢？

I bet he honors his commitmens and doesn’t nickle and dime his clients.

我打赌他说话算话，并且也不会坑客户的钱。

Its been my experience that many of the successful wealthy ones are NOT greedy the way so many like to portray them - especially here on Reddit.

我个人的经历就是，很多成功的富人都并非很多人喜欢描述的那样贪婪——尤其是reddit这里。

Most are grateful for their success and enjoy being able to help others, to give back, and to share what they have with family and friends - not so much like handing out cash but sharing he things they have, or like taking them to big ball games or concerts, or even on vacation, or just always hosting grea aprties at their house, pool, ect.

绝大多数都对自己的成功心怀感激，并且享受可以帮助别人，可以回馈，可以把自己拥有的东西分享给家人和朋友这一点——不至于到分发现金的程度，但是可以分享他们拥有的东西，或者带着他们去大型的球赛或是音乐会，或者甚至是去度假，或者只是在自己的家里，泳池之类的地方办派对。

I know a few people who are so fucking cheap, and tight, and on top of that…theyactually will grab at anything free, PLUS even more….always looking to get theirs, and then some…and they make comments how they too should have done this or that - what they see others around them have done…and I let them talk but I always feel like, NO, never, they never would be successful because, they’re far too selfish, and far too much always about themselves — who the fuck would ever work for them, put up with that?

我也认识一些特别下贱，抠门的人，并且不仅如此，他们会拿走任何不用花钱的东西，甚至更多……总是想要拿到自己的那份，然后再多来点……而且他们还会评头论足说他们也早就应该做这种事那种事，当他们看见他们周围的人做成了的时候……我任他们去说，但是我总是觉得，不，不可能，他们永远也不可能成功，因为他们实在是太自私了，也太自我了——这个世界上有谁会乐意为他们工作，忍受这种事情呢？

UnoriginalUse
He owns a piece of code that a multibillion euro company needs to run and licenses it out to them.

他有一段代码的产权，一个数十亿欧元价值的公司需要靠这个代码运转，他把这个代码授权给他们。

Due-Listen2632
I work at a global fashion company and for 20 or so years, we relied on an algo that a consultancy firm (3 guys) had developed. In the original contract we signed, the consultancy firm were to "help us" with the web traffic data since we didn't have a proper IT departement at that time. Turns out the wording in the contract sucked, and we had signed over the actual data ownership to these guys, so they actually owned all of our web traffic data. They refused all offers we made to buy them out/void the contract and we had to buy back our own data for 20+ years, paying them ridiculous amounts of money every year.

我在一家跨国时尚企业工作了二十来年。我们依赖于一家三个人开的咨询公司研发的算法。在我们一开始签的合同里面，这个咨询公司是来“帮助我们”解决网络访问数据的，毕竟我们当时还没有像样的IT部门。结果合同里的用词有鬼，我们把数据的实际所有权送给了他们，所以他们拥有我们公司的所有网络访问数据。他们拒绝了我们购买这些数据或是撕毁合同的所有提案，我们只能在接下来的二十多年里不断购买我们自己的数据，每年给他们付庞大的金额。

CO_PC_Parts
I work in data analytics. I get livid when our stupid marketing department wants to partner with the 40th different vendor who promises them the world. All we gotta do is install their base code.

我是干数据分析的。我们愚蠢的市场部想要和把全世界都许诺给他们的第四十个不一样的小贩合作的时候我快要气死了。我们要做的是把他们的源代码装上。

All that code does is send them copies of our web data. They just hand it over. And then 6-8 months later I do an audit and they say “oh we don’t work with them anymore” yet their fucking code is still on our site.

那些代码要做的就是把我们的网络数据发给他们。他们只是把数据交给别人。然后再过留到八个月，我做审计的时候他们说，“哦我们不和他们合作了。”但是他们的代码还在我们的网站上。

_TiminyCricket_
Same here. Went to high school with him, he wrote some code (something to do with the efficiency of how graphics are rendered) that he sold to a company that starts with an N and designs GPUs, back in late 90’s.

我也一样。和他一起上的高中，他写了段代码（和渲染图像的效率相关），在上世纪90年代卖给了一家N字开头研发GPU的公司。

I don’t know how much he got, I just know that he retired at 23.

我不知道他挣了多少钱，我只知道他23岁就退休了。

Logical_Jicama_3821
How do you “sell” code?

你是怎么“卖”代码的？

rbcello
Code is intellectual property, just like the written words in say, a novel. So if you write some code to do something unique and you publish it under a license, then companies can't use your code to aid in their business unless they pay you for access to a license to use it.

代码是一种知识产权，就像小说那种写下来的东西一样。所以你写了能做独特的事情的代码，然后依照某种协议公开，那么公司就不能用你的代码去做他们的生意，除非他们给你钱，按照你的协议去用。

This is pretty common in programming. People write code to solve small, niche problems and make it available for other to use when they encounter those problems. They're called code libraries.

这在编程领域很常见。人们写代码解决小的，偏门的问题，然后让别人遇到同样的问题的时候有得用。这种东西叫做代码库。

If you "open-source" your library, then anyone can use it for free. If you "closed-source" it, then it usually requires payment to use. Often you'll see a hybrid approach taken where hobbyists are allowed to use a library for free, but if they want to start a company that uses the library, they have to start paying.

如果你“开源”你的库，那么所有人就都能免费使用。如果你“闭源”，那么通常就要花钱才能用。你经常会见到的是一种混合的方法，爱好者们可以免费试用这个库，但是如果他们想要用这个库开公司，他们就要花钱了。

Alternatively, you can sell your library altogether instead of licensing it to people, which is what this guy did.

而你也可以把你的库打包卖掉，而不是授权给别人，这个人就是这么做的。

tmckearney
Nothing. Has never had a job. Inherited a bunch of money at 20 years old. Has never had to work

啥也不干。他从来没上过班。20岁那年继承了一大笔钱。他从来不用上班。

starkiller_bass
Shit, man, you don’t need a million dollars to do nothin

我草，兄弟，你啥也不干用不着一百万美元啊

YimmyMac86
Take a look at my cousin, he’s broke, don’t do shit!

看看我表弟，他破产了，照样啥也不干！

jonnythefoxx
The richest guy I had dealings with with was rich because an ancestor of his dealt industrial quantities of drugs on behalf of the British empire.

我认识的最有钱的人之所以有钱，是因为他祖上代表大英帝国大批量贩卖毒品。

HeftyArgument
In the end the real winners were the opium peddlers

到头来真正的赢家是大麻贩子家的孩子。

Sm1rfie
My ex girlfriend from when i was 16. Her parents came from nothing and are worth about 50 million. All from houses. They bought run down house, moved in and renovated. Sold it 6 months later then rinse and repeat. They have 200+ houses and a 3M mansion with pools (plural) horse riding fields, tennis courts. They build a recording studio in one of there outhouses for one of the kids. Crazy money.

我16岁那年的前女友。她父母白手起家，到身价五千万。全都是房地产挣的。他们买下旧房子，搬进去重新装修，六个月之后卖掉，然后重复一遍。他们手下有两百多套房产，有一套价值三百万的豪宅，带泳池（不止一个），跑马场和网球场。他们为自家孩子把其中一栋外屋改建成了录音棚。钱多得吓人。

ZTheRockstar
This confirms that the music industry is really about how much money you start with.

这证实了在音乐行业重要的就是你有多少钱。

the_roguetrader
years ago rock bands generally came from working class backgrounds, whereas nowadays it's often middle or upper class kids - basically people who don't need to work for a living and can sit around being artistic every day !

多年以前，摇滚乐队基本都来自工薪阶层，而现在都是中产或者上层子弟——基本就是一群用不着工作养家糊口，每天都能坐着当艺术家的人！

I saw a hotly tipped girl punk band lately... the singer / guitarist was about 18 and already had professional equipment - the kind of stuff the rest of us can only dream of...

我最近看了一个收小费收得特别多的女子朋克乐队……主唱兼吉他手刚十八岁出头，就已经有专业设备了——那些我们只能做梦想想的东西……

with the current 'cost of living crisis' and collapse of the traditional music industry, I doubt many poor kids get famous these days !

随着现在的生活成本危机出现和传统音乐行业的崩塌，我怀疑以后还能有多少穷人家的孩子出名！

sth128
It always was. All arts are luxuries for people with more money than they know what to do with. Mozart only survived cause royalties with unlimited funds supported him. Without the rich Mozart would have died like random peasants.

一直都是这样。所有的艺术都是那些钱多到不知道怎么花的人的奢侈品。莫扎特能活下来，只是因为钱多到花不完的王室成员支持他。没有这些富人，莫扎特也会像个穷农民一样死去。

djr41463
Richest person I know is the CEO of the company I work for. It’s a very large company , that you all have heard of, I can say I know him and he knows me just on a professional basis. His salary, is public record, is $22M/ year

我认识的最有钱的人是我工作的公司的CEO。这家公司非常大，你们都听说过。我可以说我认识他，并且他认识我，不过只是基于专业领域。他的薪水在公开范围内是每年2200万。

Djent_Reznor1
Crazy how most people could retire off of what he makes in 2 months.

他两个月挣的钱能让多少人退休啊……

djr41463
My net worth is his one month salary.. I have have been at it 40 years

我的总资产是他的一个月工资……而我已经干了四十年了。

Liorau
Real estate development. This guy I know buys up commercial properties, renovates them, and leases them out. It sounds straightforward, but the scale he operates is huge, and he always seems to be two steps ahead of the market

房地产开发。我认识的这个人会买下商业房产，重新装修，然后出租出去。听起来很直截了当，但是他干得很大，而且好像总是能领先市场两步。

KillinTheBusiness
Pastor of a megachurch. Dude has a 10 bedroom home, a dream kitchen both inside/outside the house, a theater, and every other luxury that I could imagine. Has "guest pastors" to cover up going on expensive vacations every couple of months, etc. He is the sole reason I became disillusioned with the church that I grew up in.

是一个巨型教会的牧师。这哥们有个10间卧室的房子，房子内外各一个奢华的厨房，一个影院，还有各种各样我能想得到的奢侈品。他有“客座牧师”来掩盖自己每几个月出去花大钱度假的事实。他是我对自己从小到大待的教会祛魅的唯一原因。

flatstacy
Megachurch pastors were the original influencers

巨型教会的牧师就是最早的网红。

FromundaCheeseLigma
And they didn't even need to Photoshop their tits and hips!

而且他们甚至用不着ps自己的柰子和屁股！

YaBoiKlobas
But it helps

但P了更好

JK_NC
This is the definition of taking the lord’s name in vain. Saying “Oh my god” or saying Muhammad’s name isn’t the sin. This is. Using your religion’s name for personal profit.

这就是亵渎上帝的名的定义。说“我的上帝啊”或者说先知穆罕默德的名字不是罪。这才是罪。用你宗教的名义去追求个人的利益。

Smart_Cantaloupe_259
Developed a specific type of resistor for elevators and monopolised the whole market as the demand for them is quite high. Or at least that's what they told me.

给电梯研发了一种特殊的电阻器，并且垄断了整个市场，因为对它的需求很高。至少他们是这么告诉我的。

BarracudaDelicious49
The elevator business is very up and down

电梯这个行业真是有高有低啊。

Leoka
She banged my dad and had both kids written out of his will

她草了我爸爸，然后把两个孩子的遗产都抢了。

Goodguy1967
Anesthesiologist

麻醉师。

Middle_Manager_Karen
I met one sitting next to me on an airplane. She said she works two 24 hour shifts per month. She can sleep in a cot half the time. Two people are on call at all times for emergency surgeries. So someone can sleep and another work the surgery. $200K per year, 4 days per month. The reason is the risk and knowledge to not kill patients is high. This role is often sued

我坐飞机的时候，在邻座认识了一位。她说她每个月干两次24小时的班。其中一半的时间她可以睡在折叠床上。两个人要24小时待命准备紧急手术。所以一个人睡觉，另一个干手术。一年二十万美元，一个月干四天。理由就是风险很高，不害死病人所要求的知识也很高。这一行经常被起诉。

tellmewhatyouwantttt
the richest person I know is my BILs cousin. she doesn't really do much .she inherited a shit ton of money and land (some with poperties which she air bnbs) when her grandparents passed away. she's works at a call center, just chilling.

我认识的最有钱的人是我小舅子的表亲。她不干什么工作。祖父母离世的时候她继承了一大笔钱和土地（有些带房子，她就租到airbnb了）。她在一家电话中心工作，就是图一乐。

trucorsair
Runs a consulting company. She founded it with another person, they built it up to about 30 consultants in the pharmaceutical area and then were bought out by a much larger company for just north of $100,000,000.

开咨询公司。她和另一个人合办的。两个人把规模扩张到了在医药领域一共30名咨询师左右。然后被一家规模更大的公司收购了，价格是一亿美元出头。

JackHarkN
My client the businessman, he owns over 30 casinos and 30 hotels all around the world

我客户是个生意人，拥有世界各地三十多家赌场和三十家酒店。

Character-Bar-8650
Guy who got into crypto early and sold them when they were at 60k each

那个很早就买了加密货币，在一个币价值六万的时候卖了的人。

whole_chocolate_milk
He's a coder. But all his money is family money. He makes a pretty modest living. But his parents gave him a fully paid off house for a wedding gift.

他是个码农。但他的钱全都是家里的。他自己生活很简朴。但是他的父母在结婚的时候送了他一套全款付清的房子。

reverze1901
Same as the richest person I “personally” know. We work on the same team, dude works hard, keeps his head down, bangs out quality code. As far as I know we are in the same pay band, but he owns outright a house at one of the nicest neighborhoods in San Francisco. I only knew because we got close over the years and he invited me over to watch a football game with his buddies one time. Dude had a personal chef ffs. No wonder he never had a good word to say about the company cafeteria lol.

和我“私下里”认识的最有钱的人一样。我们在同一个团队工作，这哥们工作很努力，非常低调，写的代码很有质量。据我所知我们拿的工资差不多，但是他在旧金山最好的社区有一栋房子。我认识他只是因为我们这几年走得越来越近，他有一次带我和他的好朋友们一起看橄榄球比赛。这哥们他妈有自己的私人厨师。怪不得他对我们公司的食堂从来没说过好话哈哈。

pogiguy2020
My wife

我老婆

She married me of course.

当然她嫁的是我。

hugcub
Relative of mine owns a company that cleans up train wrecks all over the USA. If a train wrecks, his company is getting a call.

我有个亲戚的公司负责清理全美国的废旧火车。如果有火车报废了，他的公司就有活干了。

noodlyarms
Fun jobs out of boredom or starts something because it's their new hobby, then abandoning it to move onto their next newest hobby short while later. 

因为无聊而找个有意思的工作，或者因为有了新的爱好开始干点什么，然后放弃掉，过一阵子再开始忙活下一个爱好。

 Born to wealthy parents who inherited massive passive income from their parents who did the heavy lifting. Two generations that never had a real worry for anything or a did hard days work. It's kinda sad but they can't do anything for themselves that normal people do daily, always have servants and maids at their beck and call. 

家里父母都有钱，父母的钱也是继承上一代大笔的被动收入，他们才是真正干事的。两代人没为任何事操过心，没干过一天的活。其实挺让人难过的，他们没法像正常人一样每天照顾好自己，身边永远有男仆女仆等着。

QuantumWalker
Hahaha trust me, it is not sad my friend

哈哈哈相信我，一点也不值得难过。

noodlyarms
I mean, if it's not sad that you can't clean or feed yourself because for 2 generations you've had servants do it for you and you're suddenly thrusted into the real world and entirely helpless than i dunno what is sad then. I had to teach the guy how to use a microwave, buy/cook food, do laundry, not get taken advantage of, basic cleaning and picking up after themselves, use public transit, etc... while in college. Guy was completely inept and frankly probably would have died from starvation despite being surrounded by the ingredients to make food. Parents were seemingly the same way.

我的意思是，如果你自己没法好好吃饭，好好收拾自己，因为两代人以来都有仆人照顾你们，然后你忽然被扔进了真实世界什么也干不了，这都不算让人难过的话，那我真的不知道什么才算是了。我上大学的时候，得教这哥们怎么用微波炉，怎么买吃的，怎么做饭，怎么洗衣服，怎么别被别人敲竹杠，怎么把自己收拾干净，怎么坐公交，等等。这哥们完全啥也干不了，说实话可能有一天会守着饼饿死。他父母看起来也是一样。

icyhotonmynuts
Nothing now. He was in IT in early 2000. He built an IT product and sold it. He's still living off that money. No partner, no kids. Living his best life.

现在啥也不干。他本世纪初干IT，做了个IT产品然后卖了。现在还在靠这笔钱过日子。没有伴侣，没有孩子。享受着最好的人生。

ToddlerPeePee
Billionaire friend. Full time investor in equities, commodities, crypto, surprisingly no real estate and no bonds.

亿万富翁的朋友。全职投资资产，大宗商品，加密货币，但没有房地产也没有债券。

IceTech59
Engineer. Holds a bunch of patents, including one he sold for $65,000,000. Working on renewable energy designs now.

工程师。手里好几个知识产权，其中一个卖了6500万美元。现在在干可再生能源设计。

PaperHandsMcGee213
C suite executive for a top insurance company

给头部保险公司当C字头的管理层。

throwaway7789778
Ah, the enemy of the people type. May he never find peace.

啊，人民公敌那一类的。愿他永无安宁。

PaperHandsMcGee213
he’s an immigrant and is only 40, lives away from his family and works 100 hours/week. I don’t think there’s peace.

他是个移民，今年刚四十岁，远离自己的家人，一周工作一百个小时。我不觉得他有多安宁。

stevemc1979
Farmer. I don't know his exact net worth but I have been told he is significantly into the 9 digit area.

农民。我不知道他具体有多有钱，但有人告诉我他的

TheMissingPremise
Uhhh...I'm not sure who's richer, the retired dentist or the retired physicist.

呃……我不确定哪位更有钱，是那个退休的牙医还是那个退休的物理学家。

alexanderleedmd13
How is the physicist so wealthy

物理学家怎么有钱的

TheMissingPremise
Working at a national lab for like 40 years

在国家实验室干了大概四十年

jarrettbrown
He does something computer related, but he’s related to one of the Johnsons that started Johnson and Johnson. Guy has so much stock that it’s not funny.

他做的是和电脑相关的工作，但是他是那个创办强生公司的其中一个强生先生的后代。这哥们手里的股票很多，不是开玩笑的。

rustyxnickle
Nothing. inherited 7 + m in cash plus all of daddy's properties. Never worked a real job.

啥也不干。继承了七百多万的现金，以及爸爸的所有房产。没干过真正的工作。

PureYouth
He plays bass in one of the biggest bands in the world. They’re terrible

他在世界上最出名的乐队之一弹贝斯。那帮人烂得要命。

GrizzlyKiwi1
Nothing. Old money.

啥也不干。老钱。

Enough money to last 100 generations even with a few screwing it up.

钱足够养活一百代，哪怕中间搞砸了。

Happens to be a deeply troubled and unhappy person, full of paranoia. Their entire family is like that. Seems to want to control and manipulate everyone around them using their money.

是个深陷困惑并且不开心的人，总是怀疑有人害自己。他们全家都这样。好像总是想用自己的钱去控制，去操纵周围的所有人。

Tukn
Chairmam of one the biggest airlines in the world. I used to work as a recepcionist for a 5 stars luxury hotel in Patagonia. He would take the whole family for vacations, around 20 people. Nice guy, polite, and well educated. I would see a lot of filthy rich assholes while I was working there, Russian billionaires, European elite.

世界上规模最大航司之一的主席。我之前在巴塔哥尼亚（注：位于阿根廷南部和智利的地区）的一家五星级奢侈酒店当前台。他会带着全家来度假，大概20个人。很好的人，有礼貌，受过很好的教育。我在那工作的时候见过很多有钱的王八蛋，俄罗斯亿万富豪，欧洲精英。

DiligentCockroach700
He's the CEO of his own company that he built up from nothing over the last 20 years. He's worth millions but drives a 20 year old Volvo and lives in a modest 3 bed semi.

他是自己公司的CEO，公司是过去二十年来从一张白纸建设起来的。他身价数百万，但还是开着一辆20年车龄的沃尔沃，住着简朴的三居室联排。

FantasticChildhood87
NHL player, just signed a 70 million dollar contract after his 40 million expired. He drives a Toyota sienna and donates a ton of his money. Most normal dude ever. I drive a nicer car than him and have seen his wife shopping at T.J. Max multiple times with their children.

NHL运动员，上一个4000万合同结束之后刚签了一个7000万的合同。开着一辆丰田赛那，把一大笔钱都捐出去了。是我认识的最正常的哥们。我开的车都比他好，而且我在T.J.MAX（译注：美国最大的日用品折扣商店）见过好几次他老婆带着孩子买东西。