This line of reasoning is how Bernie Madoff stole $18 billion. "Look at how successful he is! He must be a great investor!"

One way to look at it is that capitalism basically involves two activities: creating value for others and moving money into your very own pocket. Overall, they're correlated. They have to be, or the system would collapse. But in any specific instance, a rich person may only be good at one of them.

Yep. That's Juicero level money.

I'm stealing this as my new expensive / large sum replacement

Make sure to emphasize at the same time with making motions with your hands like you're squeezing a bag of juice.

> is what's wrong with Silicon Valley

this.