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It should be obvious to anyone, that when you have more wealth than 99.5% of the world, you owe the rest of the world.

But not so many understand or realize that.

Next time, they shall be born alone, let's see how many hours they survive.

People feed you. Build stuff for you. Make your life better. And most of them, don't gain much from it. Usually, they just die younger.



>>It should be obvious to anyone, that when you have more wealth than 99.5% of the world, you owe the rest of the world.

Unless you are a king, dictator or some force of evil. Building 99.5% of the wealth in the world will mandate you to build empires of business, solve problems, provide employment to millions of people around the globe.

That much doesn't happen merely by chance.


Agreed. But it doesn't happen merely by hard work either. If it did, my dad would be richer than Paris Hilton.




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