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Re:Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who r... by bequanna on Saturday June 22, 2024 @01:40PM (#40760712)
> Your wealth likely derives from a mixture of raw talent, hard work, luck, and preferential attachment

This is a disturbing viewpoint to see on HN.

We already went down this path (a few times) and it resulted in >100 million deaths in the 20th century.

Re:Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who r... by anigbrowl on Saturday June 22, 2024 @01:54PM (#40760805)
Try arguing with substance instead of hyperbolic (and specious) comparisons.

Preferential attachment is a well-documented economic phenomenon, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment

Re:Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who r... by bequanna on Saturday June 22, 2024 @02:14PM (#40760956)
This is a feature, not a bug.

In our system, capital tends to concentrate and flow to people who are good stewards of it.

Many of the rich train their children to provide value and allocate capital efficiently. This is somehow a bad thing?

The comment I responded to was the typical collage freshman “eat the rich” bs which is rooted in communistic ideation. Those ideas are generally worthless and go down a shitty path for both the individual and society. Those ideas result in misery literally every time we try them.

Re:Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who r... by anigbrowl on Saturday June 22, 2024 @03:30PM (#40761508)
Preferential attachment is a natural phenomenon and has nothing to do with 'our system'. One could equally say of an oppressive Stalinist regime 'power tends to concentrate and flow to people who are good stewards of it,' and those who have a lot of power in such societies would not doubt agree.

The comment I responded to was the typical collage freshman “eat the rich” bs which is rooted in communistic ideation.

Then you should have directed your remarks to the person who wrote that instead of to me.