Billionaires are not billionaires because they're smart.

https://lemmy.world/post/44006936

If it’s so easy why aren’t you a billionaire?

In reality running a company is a dog shit unrewarding chore. You need to build something really extraordinary to punch into mainstream and hope competition won’t catch up

I think both can be true simultaneously, no? I don’t think the point is that it’s easy. I also doubt it’s just hard work, elbow grease and a bit of luck to become so ridiculously rich. I think every single dollar billionaire has probably done, at the least, morally dubious things, and in most cases probably outright lied, stolen, and abused people in the pursuit of power. A billion dollars is just such an egregious amount of money in a world where so many have so disappearingly little in comparison.
I think it’s the other way around. If you’re successful beyond certain scale you get entangled into politics whether you want or not