[rizkeyz]

Not OP but I would have an issue with that. I do not want to "copy" what is already there, because many things out there are just not good. Someone making a million basically doing nothing is bad, if most people have to work a few centuries to amass that wealth. Inequality is not good, not because everyone is equal, but because you are just using an unfair advantage.

I do not want to copy that. I do not want to support this way of living.

(Also, I do not think I'm whining. I'm in the top income bracket in my country, have some talent and was gifted with some brain at birth and healthiness. But, you know, most of these things are not my doing - I was lucky many times over, and often I see people working 100x harder than me not ending up nearly in the same spot. Is that a good society?)

[the_lonely_road]

Yes this is a good society. If your passion is cutting hair that’s fine, spend your life cutting hair. You might add value to 10,000 other humans before you die of natural causes at a ripe old age. If your passion is developing video games and you make a sleeper hit like Stardew Valley that is purchased and enjoyed by 20,000,000 other humans why shouldn’t you receive “social credit” ie money well in excess of the person that cut 10,000 people’s hair?

It’s not fair and it’s not meant to be fair. It’s meant to allocate limited resources in an efficient manner. Doing something people don’t care about or producing something people don’t care about, get nothing back. Do something people value or produce something they want and get the amount they value it back.

I’m aware that grifters exist and some people make money that shouldn’t make it like violently taking it from others that earned it or tricking people into giving away money they didn’t want to but you don’t cancel a system because it can’t run perfect. If we did that we would have to shut down public schools because a few teachers have sex with children, shut down the military because a few soldiers snapped on a civilian, and the list goes on and on.

[topicseed]

We don't know his friends nor how they acquired their wealth, so I'd let OP make a distinction between those friend who they have stuff to learn from, and those who just were born rich and get richer off of that state of having been rich all their lives.