I am frustrated by discourses in the software community that suggest most concentrations of wealth are necessarily evidence of theft, partly because that is untrue and partly because it's extremely instrumentally suboptimal for builders of things to think that.
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You will meet millionaires working in software. That is not an exceptional outcome for people who work in the industry for large portions of their career. Indeed, the exceptional thing about the software industry is that it routinely delivers this outcome to non-executives.
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This is exacerbated by class distinctions where, in the places where wealth tends to concentrate, talking about it explicitly in an instructive manner is culturally verboten. So you end up with folks involuntarily playing a game whose rules they don't know, badly, and losing.
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Didn't PG do a whole thing on this? The car analogy was perfect!
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I think I read it a while ago. This article? http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
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Absolutely a very strong force behind the difficulty of "charging more".
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While you may see some anti-millionaires takes, most of it really seems to be focused on billionaires not contributing enough to society
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"Hard to do this if you think all millionaires are thieves." Have you met people? Any people? Very many would accept being thought of as thieves, thinking of themselves as thieves, for even a chance of making a million. In half a heartbeat.
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