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From a macroeconomic perspective, a wage & salary worker can only move up if he's able to avoid all the skim, scam and fraud that takes his wages, and then makes an early exit to the "leisure-class taxation regime" that favors investment income and inherited wealth.
Perhaps the most startling example of this dynamic is the WSJ article that explained how Warren Buffett made his investors insanely wealthy by merely not screwing them.
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