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The airport was just an example. You simply can't do normal people things.

I might not like airport lines but I'd hate to be forbidden from going through that process. I also couldn't just walk down the street to get a pizza. Or go out dancing at night. Or to play board games. Or take a random walk or bike ride around the city. If I was rich and everyone knew it, I'd have to live in a bubble.

That's different from "comfortable rich" where you own your own home and a retirement fund and live mostly normally.

I think he probably could do normal things outside of major tech hubs. He isn’t famous for his face, like an actor.

If asked he could say he works for a company that makes some computer part.

“Are they well known?”

“Kinda, but mostly datacenters buy them, you probably don’t own one.”

Keanu Reeves famously rides the subway. You don’t have to isolate yourself.
> I also couldn't just walk down the street to get a pizza.

Well, not necessarily. Jensen Huang was famous for going to random food stalls in Taiwan and eating street food.

It might be harder and riskier, and I get what you mean, but it's not like you actually can't do those things.

Also maybe it's not necessarily a billionaire thing, but more like a fame thing. Billionaires tend to get famous just due to being rich, but I'd imagine a random person wouldn't recognize 80+% of the people on the billionaire list if they saw the billionaire chomping down a pizza in the local pizza place.

If you’re that rich but you can’t live a normal life, and you aren’t willing to restructure things to prioritize your life, you’re obviously making a choice in favour of continuing to accumulate wealth or power.
You reckon that if the Concorde was still in existence then all the tech billionaires would be avoiding it? I doubt it.