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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Austen Allred‏ @Austen 5 Jun 2018
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      In a group chat trying to guess how many millions of dollars a friend’s company is going to be acquired for. He’ll probably make more from that than all of my (or his) ancestors have, combined, ever. And he’s like 30. Do you ever just stop and think about how crazy this all is?

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 5 Jun 2018
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      The optimistic take is that this is, primarily, because people who are alive at this exact moment in time have more opportunity to create more wealth for more people than at any other time in history.

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 5 Jun 2018
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          Replying to @patio11 @AustenAllred

          My younger brother has, call it, 100,000 people who read his blog about writing comic book superhero novels. Mark Twain's bestselling book didn't hit 100k copies in his lifetime. Mark Twain. 100th or 1,000th best author who was a contemporary of his?

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 5 Jun 2018
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          You could come from a long line of authors and, with no particular talent other than being an author with access to the Internet, trivially produce more value than all of them combined: write the median book, distribute it better than they could in 30 lifetimes.

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        1. Austen Allred‏ @Austen 5 Jun 2018
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          Exactly!

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        1. RDS  ☕‏ @ricardodsanchez 6 Jun 2018
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          The reality take is that not *everyone has this opportunity, unfortunately.

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        1. Christopher Peters  😷‏ @statwonk 6 Jun 2018
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          I think this is pretty common during historical periods of inflation. e.g. - robber barrons, captains of industry.

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