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And so it’s clearer to programmers that wealth is something that’s made, rather than being distributed, like slices of a pie.

– Paul Graham in How to Make Wealth

A surprising number of people retain from childhood the idea that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world. [...] What leads people astray here is the abstraction of money. Money is not wealth. It’s just something we use to move wealth around.

– Paul Graham on How to Make Wealth