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Comment by COGlory

It's not rich hating, it's that there's a billion poor people who weren't passed a silver spoon, worked hard, but ultimately failed in the one key element: luck. Rich people never understand that most of their success came from luck. In general, it makes them very unqualified to tell other people how to get rich.

And no I'm not saying rich people are too dumb to understand it, I'm saying that they're trying to rationalize survivorship bias, which pretty much everyone on planet earth does, knowingly, or unknowingly.

I'd highly recommend Fooled by Randomness for more on the topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fooled_by_Randomness

parent COGlory 2 years ago

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