This is wrong, it is extremely easy to say he didn't earn it.
Calculated as a salary, Bill Gates would need to be paid ~$185,000 an hour since birth to reach his current level of wealth[1]. Of course, that's a little silly, babies don't have jobs. If you constrain him to the time he actively worked at Microsoft his hourly rate goes up to ~$1,582,000.
I think Bill Gates is in the top 0.01% of people for problem solving ability. He's very, very good. But let us not pretend that he "earned" his money. He did an enormous amount of very competent work well above the ability of most of us - and there is no way that his stupendous output comes close to being a "fair trade" for the compensation he received.
This is wrong, it is extremely easy to say he didn't earn it.
Calculated as a salary, Bill Gates would need to be paid ~$185,000 an hour since birth to reach his current level of wealth[1]. Of course, that's a little silly, babies don't have jobs. If you constrain him to the time he actively worked at Microsoft his hourly rate goes up to ~$1,582,000.
I think Bill Gates is in the top 0.01% of people for problem solving ability. He's very, very good. But let us not pretend that he "earned" his money. He did an enormous amount of very competent work well above the ability of most of us - and there is no way that his stupendous output comes close to being a "fair trade" for the compensation he received.
[1] ~109 billion dollars according to google