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Originally Posted by Sliver
The point is, nobody can earn billions of dollars. He didn't work extra hard to make hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars more than everybody else. If somebody makes it to billionaire status, they did so largely by fluke, luck and other peoples' hard work. They slipped through the cracks in a way. Or they were greedy. It is greedy to let yourself become that rich unless you have a future plan to disperse your wealth for a greater good upon your death.
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I'd say that's pretty well all wrong and the opposite is more likely true. Greed is most often what causes people to lose money not make money. Risk is most often what generates wealth. And smarter people tend to take better risk and get more reward. Fluke and luck are both possibilities but like poker, the best and brightest tend to be the luckiest and most successful.