[barelyauser]

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[anigbrowl]

It is not only my nature, but human nature.

No it isn't. It's the nature of about 30% of people, who can't be happy without knowing that someone else is worse off. Many of the characteristics that you ascribe to stupidity are actually examples of selfishness, and you're leveraging the existence thereof to rationalize your own selfishness.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451

Your wealth likely derives from a mixture of raw talent, hard work, luck, and preferential attachment, and imho wealth and fitness (in the technical sense) are poorly correlated in modern society.

[bequanna]

> Your wealth likely derives from a mixture of raw talent, hard work, luck, and preferential attachment

This is a disturbing viewpoint to see on HN.

We already went down this path (a few times) and it resulted in >100 million deaths in the 20th century.

[mbrumlow]

Actually. I find it the opposite. The 30 percent you speak of don’t care and are not in the web yelling eat the rich.

The real problem is the 70% who can’t be happy knowing that others are better off than them.

(It’s actually not 70% most don’t care but anybody who says eat the rich is the problematic person)

[MourYother]

Unironically stealing this for pasta; what a content.

[Rinzler89]

It's flagged, can you share it?

[bpm140]

aka “Galt’s speech reformatted for TikTok”

Tell us more about the moochers, please?