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The wealthy want to believe it was their hard work and not luck that made them successful. (It’s both of course.)

Consider where their wealth comes from: it comes from skimming off some of the income earned by employees or by investment - which again, skims off earnings from productive enterprises.

Neither of those incomes come from their own actual work.




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