I've met a lot of people who were aggrieved that other people were rich and not them, and I've met a lot of people who went on to become rich, but I've never met anyone who did both.
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What about attitudes to people who inherit wealth without having done anything; can people be aggrieved at them being rich whilst being happy about people creating their own wealth by their own efforts?
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Empirically the people I've met who went on to become rich weren't bothered by people who inherited money. You'd have to resent people who won the lottery too...
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Hm. Empirically?
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Yeh he published a study on it in a well ranked peer reviewed journal. Or maybe he forgot how to spell “anecdotally”
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Ties in closely with views on fairness and willingness to accept and work within an environment vs. how one wishes it was. Have to understand problems to make progress, including accepting and working around constraints instead of getting stuck on protesting the constraints.
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