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Read this: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html If you believe more wealth is coming from "lying bribing cheating steal
by lionhearted 16y ago
Read this:
http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
If you believe more wealth is coming from "lying bribing cheating stealing murderous" behavior, then I'm guessing you don't actually know many people succeeding at a high level financially. They tend to have the same human flaws most of us have about being expedient or nasty sometimes, but actually tend to be less that way than people not succeeding as much.
It's really hard to get far by screwing people. Everyone has conflicts, but people getting wealthy in a place like modern USA are doing it much more by building and serving, not lying/cheating/stealing/killing/etc.
- gnosis 16y ago"getting wealthy in a place like modern USA are doing it much more by building and serving, not lying/cheating/stealing/killing/etc." Perhaps you are not aware of a little insignificant place called Washington. I really wonder just how many really rich and powerful people there are in the US (or even the world) who did not have to horse trade with that little town. And what was it that they traded, I wonder? Yes, I'm sure it was all on the up and up, and nothing illegal or immoral was done. Everyone gets rich through their own hard work, blood, sweat, and tears. And no one else gets hurt in the process. And don't even get me started on the violence inherent in the system that makes so much "wealth building" possible.
- jessedhillon 16y agoThis is baseless conjecture, bordering on conspiracy theory. Nothing you've said is remotely plausible, it's all hyperbole. Who keeps voting up your comments? That's the real conspiracy here.