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curuinor on Oct 13, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: It’s better to be born rich than gifted

born rich (his dad was a provincial minister)

poor

poor (middle-class, if you think a carpenter is that way, maybe)

middle-class

rich (born a landed knight)

rich (although his father's engineering firm went bust but restarted and did well in the second time and they had money worries at times)

about 0.5-5% of people are rich by most definitions

humankind does not live by bread alone, but put a human in a box and don't feed them and see what happens

DoreenMichele on Oct 13, 2018 [–]

Put all humans in a mental box that suggests that how much money they make and how much profit they turn are all that matter and see what happens. That isn't pretty either. We are seeing some of the gruesome outcomes of that currently, for example:

https://medium.com/@joycebowen/murder-by-medicine-dfe9d23207...

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