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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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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"an exceptional outcome" is hard to quantify but there are a lot of people working in software, I'm pretty sure well over 99% of them are not millionaires. In fact I would guess more than 4 9s.
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AppAmaGooBookSoft employ, back of envelope math here, 100k engineers. Every one which isn't fired will be a millionaire within 10 years. Very few are fired. I feel awkward banging this drum so much but bang it I do because this should inform expectations about e.g. offers.
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I have heard very few complaints about millionaires. Being a millionaire is a completely acceptable outcome to all but a few. The problem is the simultaneous existence of many-fold billionaires (built off of extremely advantageous tax situations) with deep poverty.
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