This article is a load of bs. We need to stop vilifying people because they've reached success. Having the choice, you'd pick to be in their shoes 10 times out of 10. They are job creators, and no, they aren't perfect - but their country club memberships, private jets, etc. do provide jobs as well.
We live in America, we all have the opportunity to create wealth and be as successful as we want. Instead of calling them names and whining about it, go be successful yourself and change what you don't like.
I'm wondering if you have the capacity, and imagination, to articulate what a nation solely composed of individuals such as yourself would be like.
Your reaction all-to-much reminds me of the negativity that HN leveled against cperciva's "exam": brash opinions, with little reflection.
I don't really respond much on HN, it'd be too tedious, but for a moment consider your comment. It is filled with an inordinate number of assumptions. Assumptions such as the meaning of "success", wealth creation, and implicitly, and glaringly, the admission that to "change what you don't like" you ought to "go be successful yourself".
You are too shallow to see that much of your comfortable world-view is a gift of American society, which was too hard fought for you to simply throw away on ideological whims.
No, I am not shallow. I work my ass off and if I live comfortably, it's because of it. Sounds like you didn't read the article at all to think my comment had little reflection.
Adding more value was our biggest lesson. If you don't feel that your product or service has enough value to make it a no-brainer for your customer, keep adding.
