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We do have a large number of wealthy people who are all about that and I find it mind boggling. What kind of idiot decides that the most important thing to them after they already have over a billion dollars is to get more? Why not try to do new risky things that are unlocked by that money? How're they really just all about a "number go up" game?

Fortunately it seems that we also have quite a few wealthy people that actually want to use their money to fund and do new and innovative stuff.



> We do have a large number of wealthy people who are all about that and I find it mind boggling

Selection bias?

People who don't care about constantly accumulating more wealth than they need rarely end up obtaining it.




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