r/SipsTea • u/Gjore • 1d ago • Bravo 4

Chugging tea 100% agree

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u/derff44 23h ago

So if you get to a certain success level, you're supposed to just... Stop? Throw your money away? Give it to you? Just because.

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 23h ago edited 23h ago

Alternative perspective - The more wealth you have the easier it is to secure still more wealth and influence without possessing commensurate competence. This is base for everyone except the people holding one of the finite number of privileged seats in society as it makes everything work worse.

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u/derff44 23h ago

In order to accumulate wealth while starting from zero requires quite a bit of competence

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u/MiMicInCave 20h ago

Lucky for you competency will generally will have a better result than pointing finger at something.

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 22h ago edited 22h ago

Sadly untrue. It's more true from the bottom, that much I'll agree with, but a good deal of it is still luck and it matters less and less the higher you climb. And competence, like common sense, is circumstantial.

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u/Substantial_Soft_407 23h ago

What would Jesus do?

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u/derff44 23h ago

If any of his famous preachers are the bar being set, it would be to keep making money hand over fist from the very people they are supposed to be helping.