Eneasz

It's good to hate certain things.

Nazis.

Criminals.

Two boxers.

If you don't hate anything then you don't love anything either.

The problem is that blanket hate of billionaires is bad.

I want to point at the fact that the hate is destructive and stupid rather than appropriately defensive.

There's an image here.

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The Code of Honourable Wealth The thing I want everyone to internalise, the thing that could let us talk about the future together, is the sentiment behind Paul Graham's essay How to Make Wealth, which in my memory will always be remembered as let nerds keep their stuff.

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For most of the world's history, if you did somehow accumulate a fortune, the ruler or his henchmen would find a way to steal it.

But in medieval Europe something new happened.

A new class of merchants and manufacturers began to collect in towns.

Ten, together they were able to withstand the local feudal lord.

So for the first time in our history, the bully stopped stealing the nerd's lunch money.

This was naturally a great incentive, and possibly indeed the main cause of the second big change, industrialization.

the Europeans rode on the crest of a powerful new idea, allowing those who made a lot of money to keep it.

Once you're allowed to do that, people who want to get rich can do it by generating wealth instead of stealing it.

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