There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.
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The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money.
Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.
But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake.
Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.
Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
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