HOW TO GET RICH: (without getting lucky)

This idea that it’s stolen is this horrible zero-sum game that people who are trying to gain status play.

The history of the world, in some sense, is this predator/prey relationship between makers and takers.

You couldn’t have wealth before the farming age because you couldn’t store things. Hunter-gatherers carried everything on their backs.

But fundamentally, you play them because they’re a necessary evil.