r/SpaceXBets • u/Niviozynk • Aug 14 '26

Image AOC on Elon Musk

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u/futuristicplatapus Aug 14 '26

Most millionaires or billionaires are not the smartest they just learned to play the game

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u/FlatwormAway2228 Aug 14 '26

They learned to play the game of Monopoly after starting out with way, way more cash and properties than the other players. Not impressive.

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u/JNR13 Aug 15 '26

They're still a tiny minority among those who started out with as much as they did. The vast majority of people having a few hundred thousands as fuck-it money to start with still don't become billionaires.

That doesn't mean they earned it, just that lots of other lucky coincidences have to occur as well. And every bit of intelligence and hard work you put into it lowers the number of lucky coincidences required just a tiny bit - yet for the one at the very top, that was apparently not necessary, which does make it a remarkably odd case.

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u/Skydiver860 Aug 15 '26

just that lots of other lucky coincidences have to occur as well.

of course. but if you have lots of money in the beginning, it's easier to manipulate things to make those lucky coincidences occur