There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars in America: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance None of these has anything to do with being successful in the supposed free market.
Replying to @RBReich
Do you count all instances of "building a company that is so successful that it leads a segment of the market for a few years" as "profiting from a monopoly"? For instance, is Minecraft a monopoly? Uber? Reddit? LinkedIn?
2:42 PM - 11 Nov 2019
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