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It just makes economic inequality more persistent if, while rich kids are being taught the recipe for wealth,
twitter.com/paulg/status/1…
you tell poor kids it's impossible to become rich except by being a crook:
twitter.com/RBReich/status…
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free street parking in Manhattan is theft
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I actually learned that building a monopoly is the only way to make a billion dollars from YC youtube.com/watch?v=3Fx5Q8…
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free street parking in Manhattan is theft
@tommyrva
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27. sij |
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I don't think y'all disagree on the facts as much as the framing and conclusions - is that right?
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Mason 🏃🏻✂️
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If you want to help someone, give them a hand. If you want to hinder them, give them an excuse. If you want to *destroy* them, give them an excuse that compels them to spit into the next hand extended to them.
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Yash RT
@ythodge
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27. sij |
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@nntaleb made a point of how the American rich isn't like a stagnant category, it keeps changing unlike Italy.
Beware of rent seekers but they are across classes
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Jurgis Šalna
@sjurgis
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27. sij |
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No real growth in Europe, especially old Europe. People really skeptical on tech which doesn’t help either.
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Xananax
@xananax
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27. sij |
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"crooks" presupposes premeditated dishonesty.
What the tweet says, rather, is that a certain level of wealth cannot be deserved, no matter what you do. Passed a certain cap, you're "taking", even though most rich people are merely willfully ignorant, or simply naive.
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Jason Starr
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27. sij |
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Please explain how selling your billionth widget is different in terms of “taking” than your millionth, or your hundredth? If doing the same thing just at scale, why is there a “cap” where the business no longer deserves to make the same incremental profit in the same business?
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Bruno Dusausoy
@bdusauso
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There's a difference between being rich (like millionaire) and ultra-rich (like billionaire). You can become millionaire by working but you can't become billionaire simply by working: you have to exploit people, abuse a monopoly position, do tax evasion ...
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Jamie Quint
@jamiequint
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27. sij |
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Wrong.
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