• @JasSmith@sh.itjust.works
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    -69 months ago

    If you decide to continue to grow your wealth from there, you’re essentially not just making money for yourself, but so others can’t have it.

    This is a zero-sum fallacy. The size of the economy isn’t fixed. It continues to grow each year. The hyper productive people you’re referring to are disproportionately responsible for that growth, and they are disproportionately the recipients of that growth. My father was one of those people. Working 18 hours every day for 30 years. It led to a divorce and our family falling apart, but fuck did he generate a lot of economic value for the world, his company, and himself. He didn’t steal it from you. He created it.