Incidentally, the VC business is the refutation of this view. If cheating were the way to make lots of money, VCs would select founders by looking for good cheaters. And that is definitely not the filter they use.
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In any other domain, no one feels the need for conspiracy theories to explain outliers. At anything else except making money, you can do extremely well by being talented, hard-working, and lucky. But anyone who does extremely well at making money must have cheated.
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It's the diametric opposite of the filter Y Combinator used. We actively screened out applicants who seemed dishonest. It not only didn't hurt us; it helped us.
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So not only is the conspiracy theory of wealth false, but you can get rich by disproving it.
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Not quite... money AND resources. What every war has been fought over. When you hoard money and resources people get suspicious
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Not true. Politics is another domain where the most successful are assumed to have cheated to get there.
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What about politics? Or career advancement?
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By whom have you seen this accusation made?
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Athletes that do well are celebrated. Athletes that do too well are suspected of doping. Academics that do well are celebrated. Academics that do too well are suspected of p-hacking. Poker players that play well are celebrated. Those that play too well are suspected of cheating
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It's all about how many standard deviations...
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