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> He did work for that money

How do you know that? People who have lots of money often did not work for it, it's inherited.

> he did take a risk investing it in these shares

People often talk about investment risk like it's a real thing, but it's not. You can either afford it or you can't.

If you can afford the loss its not risky, it's just gambling.

"I'm taking all the risk, I deserve most of the benefit" is just bullshit rich people talk to avoid the fact that the people who actually do all of the work deserve more of the upside.




Most people in the highest net worth lists are self made. Inheritance doesn't help you that much if you are retarded. Mostly it's gone in one or two generations.


This is basically just rich people propaganda, and it's straight up not true.

The majority of the top 400 richest inherited at least 1 million.

And of the ones who did not inherit that much, often they were given that kind of money as seed money from family.

Straight up 20% of the top 400 richest were literally born in the top 400.

Knock it off with this self-made malarkey. It's just not true.




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