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Originally Posted by MuseChaser
This is going to sound a bit political, but here goes .... let me know if I'm crossing a line...
Everyone seems to love and celebrate a lottery winner's good fortune when they win millions of dollars and become extremely rich....
But the folks who create and build companies, employ thousands of people, and most of whom donate millions every year to cure diseases, help fight poverty and hunger... those folks are hated, at least by a significant percentage of the US population, because they are extremely rich.
Soooo... It's great to become rich through the lottery, but NOT through hard work and/or enterprise? Never quite understood that apparent disconnect...
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Further down the rabbit hole, but... I suspect that has to do with the lottery winner being perceived as one of us working class folk who broke out, while the person who started his or her own business and grew successful over time is the one suppressing the working class for their own gain. True or not.
That said, there are plenty of successful business owners who got there by doing some things that are ethically questionable at best. Just not all of them.