Wealth can be accumulated constructively, or by exploitation. Many political claims amount to pretending one or the other doesn't exist.
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@St_Rev Just because status hierarchy is heritable, doesn't mean status will be gained THE SAME WAY - wealth creation or rent seeking. -
@i_contemplate_ Yeah. Exploitation is extremely hard to prevent, but constructive action easy to crush. -
@i_contemplate_ Last ~50 years, US has set up a system that funnels the best & brightest toward rent-seeking. Explains a lot. -
@St_Rev Consulting, law, wall street. -
@i_contemplate_ eeeeyup. We overproduced physicists & mathematicians bc Sputnik, Wall Street scooped them up.
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