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> Does anyone else feel this way? No. Once you have spent time in a third works country you can see crisp divides in reality and expectations. There are some
by austincheney 6y ago
> Does anyone else feel this way?
No.
Once you have spent time in a third works country you can see crisp divides in reality and expectations. There are some amazingly smart people in the world living without running water, food security, or basic sanitation. Intelligence alone will not transform that poverty into excess wealth.
Once you have worked for a major government or committed yourself to science/academics you will understand that there is amazing genius intelligence that is not earning stupendous wealth. Peter Thiel has commented before about his complete inability to understand that which says more about Peter than anything else.
Honestly, according to numerous data sources most wealth comes from only two places: inheritance and narcissism. There are company founders/athletes/entertainers who are incredibly successful that are not primarily self-serving whether by favorable market conditions or their own ingenuity but they are a minority data sample after accounting for distribution of wealth by headcount quantity.
That said, a better question is: Why are you still wealthy?
- hejja 6y ago"numerous data sources", yeah sounds credible