• Zetta@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Maybe it doesn’t reach your criteria of a “certain level”, but there’s definitely stories of people winning significant amounts of money in the lottery and being broke years later because they are morons.

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      3 months ago

      It doesn’t, Cris Rock explained it very well:

      Kobe Bryant is rich, he gets a paycheck of 100 mil per year.

      Now, wealthy is the guy that signs that check.

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      3 months ago

      You need to reach the level and get the nepotism engine to collect you. A lotto winner could probably attend an event and sieg heil in front of Peter Thiel. That’s like calling a taxi into nepotism. Typical lotto winners just spend it all frivolously instead.

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      3 months ago

      You’re not seriously comparing a lotto winner to someone with global oligarch levels of wealth right now, are you? I have more respect for your intelligence than that my man.

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      3 months ago

      Right. You do have to still be smart enough in some way to retain the money/power. Or lucky/connected enough (daddy is watching out that dumb-as-rocks junior doesn’t blow all of his $100m, etc)