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For most of human history the usual way to accumulate a fortune was to steal it …. in agricultural societies by appropriating others’ estates in times of war, and taxing them in times of peace. The way to get rich was not to create wealth, but to serve a ruler powerful enough to appropriate it.

By the nineteenth century … technology had made it possible to create wealth faster than you could steal it.

Paul Graham in Mind the Gap

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Coming to terms with change is a basic life skill. If you don’t have it, it’s time to put it on your self-improvement to-do list.

Get with the program! The future isn’t going to be like the past. What’s more, it isn’t going to be like any future we imagine. How wonderful that is, if only we are prepared to accept it.

Tim O’Reilly, on O’Reilly Radar

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