> The article is largely trying to, in effect, refute the > usefulness of HN. If merit counts for little, i.e., if > reading about and doing all the things th

> The article is largely trying to, in effect, refute the > usefulness of HN. If merit counts for little, i.e., if > reading about and doing all the things that are discussed > on HN is a waste of time, then why is this site here and > why are you reading it? I don't think the article is trying to say that work (or entrepreneurship) is independent of wealth, just that it is not nearly are correlated as people would like to think. The article is probably not useful to an individual trying to optimise their own wealth; it is, however, useful when it comes to the evaluation of public policy (which is a duty of all citizens in democratic countries).