The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level

Re:The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post... by WarmWash on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:58PM (#48738411)

The question is how many people get $250k from their family and lose it all.

Everyone's life is a mix of skill and luck, so to discredit skill, you would need to quantify the luck. An easy example is a lottery winner, a hard example is a Bezos. Any investor with the foresight to see what Bezos could do with grans money, would jump past her in line and give him triple.

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Re:The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post... by bluefirebrand on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @06:49PM (#48740267)

> The question is how many people get $250k from their family and lose it all

I don't think that really matters? The fact that they even had that shot at all is such an incredible opportunity above people whose family simply cannot afford to even try

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Re:The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post... by WarmWash on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @09:23AM (#48746346)

But if you have the skill to turn $250k into much more money, anyone with $250k and that knowledge will give it to you.

There are far far more stories of investors giving nascent broke startups money than families.

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Re:The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post... by grumpy_coder on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:37PM (#48740647)

You have to have access to far more than $250k to be willing to blow that creating a startup. I may give my kids $250k for a house to live in. I do not have enough for them to yolo it on a dot com startup.

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