Well it's hit and miss but these days you can point me to just about anyone who you think earned their money 'fair and square' and I can point out many different ways that it was not quite as 'fair' nor 'square' as it seems. The role of privilege is just so significant.
Privilege is often the product of unethical machinations that happen behind the scenes or happened behind the scenes at some point in the past. Once you understand that value creation and value extraction are two very different concepts and that only the latter is rewarded AT ALL, you start to understand how we got to where we are today. It's not value creators who are rewarded. Over long periods of time, our system almost completely dispossesses value creators for the benefit of value extractors.
Money, in its current form, is the root of all evil. In a highly competitive global environment, you cannot win without cheating. That's a probabilistic fact because if there are 10K intelligent people competing in the same area (which is very common in global markets), the probability that maybe 100 of them will be cheaters is very high and the cheaters have a huge competitive edge over the non-cheaters, hence the winner in a winner-takes-all market is much more likely to be a cheater.
Privilege is often the product of unethical machinations that happen behind the scenes or happened behind the scenes at some point in the past. Once you understand that value creation and value extraction are two very different concepts and that only the latter is rewarded AT ALL, you start to understand how we got to where we are today. It's not value creators who are rewarded. Over long periods of time, our system almost completely dispossesses value creators for the benefit of value extractors.
Money, in its current form, is the root of all evil. In a highly competitive global environment, you cannot win without cheating. That's a probabilistic fact because if there are 10K intelligent people competing in the same area (which is very common in global markets), the probability that maybe 100 of them will be cheaters is very high and the cheaters have a huge competitive edge over the non-cheaters, hence the winner in a winner-takes-all market is much more likely to be a cheater.