Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and billionaires like them are treated in society as geniuses deserving of their massive wealth. After all, they created it by their own ability to identify an opportunity, gather resources, and bend reality itself through sheer willpower and an unwillingness to give up. Their hard work earned them that fortune, and they use it to better society by creating new jobs, solving big problems, and giving back through philanthropy. To deprive those who are successful of their hard earned wealth through taxation would dis-incentivize them, and society at large, from bringing their genius to the world. This is a commonly held belief in the United States but…what if it isn’t true?
YouTube: https://youtu.be/xdJuGox034E
Resources:
https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/personal-finance/your-odds-of-becoming-a-millionaire/
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Personal_responsibility
https://www.gotquestions.org/personal-responsibility.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internalized_oppression
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