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Originally Posted by RichieRich
Randomly choose 1000 people to give $100000 to. Wait 5 years. I guarantee you there'll be a very well defined bell curve reflecting what value those people have turned that money into. From those that blow it all, to those that "save" it under a mattress, to those that use it to start an amazing business (some may fail), to investing. Despite being given $100k it's a guarantee that somehow those in the lower half will find ways to blame the upper half for their situation, and vice versa. Yes sometimes good/bad luck may cause someone to be on the other side of the curve. Wealth naturally distributes itself. Even generational wealth isn't a guarantee.
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Why are you talking about a relatively piddly amount of money when the discussion is around people with extraordinary wealth and trying to use it as any kind of indicator?
Let's run this thought experiment with 10 million dollars and wait 5 years so they can do some truly rich people #### other than maybe get a new car or 1/5 of a middle class mortgage