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 don’t know the rules of being rich; because even we don’t talk about it - so you have no place to comment” is the worst take I’ve seen of yours
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That is not an accurate paraphrase. People who historically end up wealthy *don't* talk about it; people who defect from not talking about it *are attacked for doing so* (from above and below).
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There's also a valid discussion of whether those rules are fair or meritocratic; I think that's where the folks who would say a lot of wealth is unfairly earned are going. The most likely way to be wealthy in the US is to have wealthy parents, not to build great things.
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Can you disambiguate "wealthy"? 80%+ of millionaires are 1st generation, likewise ~67% of billionaires (in the US). I somehow doubt that there's a slice of the range in the middle where number dips below 50%, but I would be happy to see evidence otherwise.
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