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by Workaccount2 294 days ago
I would say that is a pretty dumb painter. Definitely wildly talented at painting, but incredibly unintelligent. Just paint the house like you were paid to.

You might think I was making an analogy, and hence tried to break it, but it wasn't an analogy. Its the same thing. You own something, you pay people to work on it, it's still all yours afterwards.

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Telling the majority of our population they are dumb for engaging in our current social contract isn't going to work out well for society long term.
Those with a 1000x return almost universally recognize that they have the talent to not work for someone else. Or they do work for someone else, but make far, far, more than a house painter to do it.

Those are probably less than 1% of the population. The majority don't even approach 2x, much less 1000x.

Then the 1000x return people should be smart enough to realize they are a small minority and not choose to alienate the much larger majority.