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I think rich get richer because of a bunch of reasons but not really because of “buying when there is blood on the streets” or “timing the market” if you prefer.

Reasons include:

* Children inherit wealth and knowledge of how to build wealth

* The children are doing this rather than trying to leetcode to get their first job (or rack up debt to get qualified for it etc.)

* Connections

* Compounding (despite corrections)

* Political influcence

* Can afford to hire tax/law people to avoid tax

* Tax law favours the rich. You pay no tax on a billion in capital gains if you never sell and if that yields you 50m you pay tax on that but let’s say it is half so 25m that is 2.5% of the wealth but if it goes up 75m over the same period that is tax free so you paid 20% tax on the increase in net worth. Compare that to a worker. And this is without doing any tax avoidance!

* To avoid tax at all in the previous example get the corp to buy back shares instead of paying dividends then live off borrowed money.


> * Children inherit wealth and knowledge of how to build wealth

that knowledge is so important. When i was a kid all I was told over and over was "get a good job in an office so you don't have to work like i do". This was coming from blue collar oil and ranch hands in West Texas so that's what i did and it's worked out pretty well for me. However, I'm teaching my kids how to build wealth and that a well-paying job is an income stream to assist with that but not the whole answer.


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