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by b0Ring 198 days ago
If they're regular people why socially do we define them as rich?

They're typical biology like everyone else but politically and economically able to influence everyone else's lives.

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Exactly. They're millions of times overrepresented in influence whereas they may have at most 1.5x (10x if we're being really generous) the skills of an average person.

In statistics, they'd be outliers and they'd be deleted from the dataset. In the news, it would be called bias. In a trampoline, they'd pierce the thing and drill down the ground; so, any outsized influence they have literally stamps out the life of a (trampoline) party.