<div class="gmail_quote">On 30 May 2011 20:18, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The other day I met a fellow who's father was a very poor copper miner<br>
in the Atacama dessert of Chile. </blockquote><div><br>And the head of a very minimal Jewish sect managed to found one of the most widespread religion in the world and be adored for centuries as a living god. Yes, it may happen, but anecdotical evidence in social sciences is exactly what obfuscates, rather than clarify, what actually happens.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Part of becoming rich is wanting to become rich badly enough to do<br>
whatever is necessary to do so.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Indeed, but there are other ingredients to it, and commercial acumen is often a rather secondary one, even in societies which were founded, and are organised, around this far from universal idea.<br>
<br>Actually, beauty, physical performances, risk propension, leadership (as in organising revolutions and becoming king...) and sheer luck usually play a much greater role, even though by no mean they can be considered on the same level as pre-existing money in determining one's wealth.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>