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by nancyminusone 242 days ago
Neither shalt thou steal. Very difficult to believe that those handful of people with almost all the clams didn't get them by not robbing you.
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That's the mistake, isn't it? Like many hard to believe things, it is nonetheless true. Stephen King wrote books a lot of people like, and a lot of people were willing to give him money for that. He didn't rob them for it. He just happened to write a book a lot of people like. Steph Curry is far wealthier than the median American, let alone the 10th percentile. Who did he rob by landing 3 pointers better than anyone else?

Perhaps Taylor Swift is the thief for singing in a way a lot of people like. Must be an Eleventh Commandment or something.