The rise of self-made billionaires and the fall of economic dynamism
Economic progress has slowed down, not sped up
Paul Graham, the influential venture capitalist, wrote a good essay recently looking at the difference between the richest people in America today versus the richest people in the America of 1982.
It’s a good essay and you should read it, but the spoiler is that today a much larger …
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