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Re:Taxation of Carried Interest by Alex3917 on Saturday June 09, 2018 @11:06PM (#17276207)
> one set of rules for the rich and another for everyone else

The rich (LPs) aren't the ones getting carry, it's the GPs who get carry.

Re:Taxation of Carried Interest by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday June 09, 2018 @11:34PM (#17276317)
Many hedge fund managers are plenty rich, oftentimes orders of magnitude more than some of their clients.
Re:Taxation of Carried Interest by Alex3917 on Saturday June 09, 2018 @11:58PM (#17276413)
Yeah and there is that one chef at Google who made $45M. But the average wealth manager has less money than the average founder, and the average founder is broke as shit.
Re:Taxation of Carried Interest by noobermin on Sunday June 10, 2018 @03:52AM (#17277086)
There are people much more broke than the average founder but they don't get wealth manager's or founder's standard of life.