That ByteDance employee who cashed out 30 million and left for financial freedom — many people start to envy after reading about it.

But if you look closely, his path was nothing like that of an ordinary worker.
Leveraging loans, deploying assets, renouncing citizenship, emigrating to Singapore. This is no longer 'working to save money' — it's a high-stakes trade with his life.
So there's really no need to blindly envy.
Most ByteDance employees are still paying mortgages, working overtime, bearing performance pressure, and worrying about layoffs.
At the same ByteDance, some bought NVIDIA in 2018, while others bought at the peak a few years ago.
Now one is financially free, the other continues to work overtime to pay the bank.
Many times, what truly creates the gap is not the salary, but what you chose to buy with your money when the window of opportunity opened.