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WalterBrighttoday at 6:42 PM1 replyview on HN

> the most successful risk takers get to own the world 50 years later.

Musk creating wealth has taken nothing from me. How about you?

> there's a second phase 50 years later, where the risk takers from 50 years ago own the world and do their best to prevent further rewards flowing to new risktakers. We are in that phase now.

Did you know that Hackernews is run by wealthy people who fund startups?

What illegal things did Bezos do to get rich? Jobs? Gates? Musk?


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hackyhackytoday at 7:03 PM

> Musk creating wealth has taken nothing from me. How about you?

That's exactly what he'd like you to believe. Where did that money come from? Did he just print it himself?

> Musk creating wealth has taken nothing from me. How about you?

Considering that billionaires are actively involved in writing the laws that ostensibly apply to them (see also: regulatory capture), I hardly think that legality should be highest bar that we hold them to. After all, the lords of medieval France acted "legally" when they executed their tenant farmers for failing to pay rent after a bad harvest.

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