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edouard-harris 43 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How to earn a billion dollars

What AOC actually said was (linked in the essay): "You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that." That is a strong claim - a claim of universal impossibility - but it's the claim she chose to make. Because she made a universal claim, an N=1 anecdote is enough to disprove it by counterexample.

theptip 43 days ago [–]

Fwiw I agree that the universal impossibility statement is too strong.

But his example doesn’t demonstrate anyone earning $1b. It just demonstrates a very high growth rate at $1-2m.

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