Why the (US) Rich Are Getting Richer

Re:Why the (US) Rich Are Getting Richer by hnal943 on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:00PM (#2093742)

I disagree that the only type of business on the internet is a google or a facebook. However, assuming they are, they were still started as the brain child of a few people who were not rich when they started.

Also, both google and facebook cornered markets that didn't exist 20 years ago. Where did that market come from? No one else got wealthy because of search or social networking?

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Re:Why the (US) Rich Are Getting Richer by JanezStupar on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:49PM (#2093939)

I just implied that to really make it (in context of this thread mind you), to get into top 5% of income you have to corner a market (existing or new).

That means risk. East German swimmer or Chinese gymnast kind of risk. For each billionaire there are such and such number of people who "got to grow as people".

In my humble opinion the swing towards egalitarianism was an anomaly in human history. Can we make this anomaly into a new status quo? Recent developments show that very unlikely.

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