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Re:Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the probl... by dvt on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:26PM (#24124802)
> EVERYTHING that was created with human effort is an example of wealth creation.

Without dismissing your point, I would strongly push back against effort being synonymous with wealth creation. Having grown up in post-Communist Eastern Europe, there was no virtually correlation between the two.

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Re:Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the probl... by btilly on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:29PM (#24124850)
Excellent point. The wealth created is not strongly correlated with the effort put out. And we've all gotten wealthier as we've moved from high effort low return activities (eg sowing fields by hand) to low effort high return activities (eg computer programming).
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