One of these neighbors, whose home now stands in the shadow of yours, is a prominent lawyer. He works twelve hours a day, 300 day a year. His rates are impressive, but not unusual, 500 per hour. Each year he can put aside half a million net after taxes and living expenses. From time to time, you wave to him from your driveway, laughing on the inside: he will have to work for twenty years to catch up with you.