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Actually, if wealth were distributed more evenly, you would have more money. As to being one of those folk: no. It’s a closed club, members only. Every newly m
by madaxe_again 9y ago
Actually, if wealth were distributed more evenly, you would have more money.
As to being one of those folk: no. It’s a closed club, members only. Every newly minted billionaire you see made it there not through hard work, but connections - if you can point me at anyone who, in the last decade, has become a billionaire without an “in”, i’ll be happy to tell you where their “in” was. These are dynasties - nepotistic, closed circle, dynasties.
As for you, unless you are already a billionaire, you will never be one. Sorry. It’s like a peasant farmer thinking one day maybe he’ll be duke, even though it’s a hereditary position, so the beatings are worth tolerating.
- jasonkester 9y agoI don't know that I believe this. I'm a newly minted... well, not billionaire, but a "living comfortably"-onaire, with wealth created by a little software-as-a-service business that I built from scratch. I had no connections, unless you count posting to this forum and the old Business Of Software one at joelonsoftware.com. I just read stuff online, taught myself the business part, and spent the seven dollars on the domain name. I feel like the bit you wrote is what people tell themselves so that they can safely not try. It's not possible. Best not bother. I'd recommend otherwise, personally.
- madaxe_again 9y agoOh, it’s certainly possible to become comfortably well off - I’ve managed to bootstrap myself to millionaire - but the top table is very much a closed affair. Rather, my point is to aspire to being realistically wealthy - but to aspire to the level of wealth enjoyed by only a few hundred individuals on earth is sheer folly.
- isostatic 9y agoMusk? Bezos? Brin, Page, Zuckerberg, Parker. I don't think any of those had particularly wealthy head starts. For a more recent example look at Jan Koum and Brian Acton.