Because I personally don't think that being obscenely wealthy is worth it. From my perspective, almost all paths to wealth seem exploitative and unethical. Of course, I don't think this view is quite common so I expect people to disagree.
I find it amusing how many comments here are some form of "I could be if I wanted to" with apparently nobody questioning how much of acquiring wealth is luck. Tells you a lot about HN's audience.
All of the commentors here so far are just responding to the headline without reading the article.<p>The article is about Netflix and the general public's judgement of business decisions.
Because those who hold money, power, and control, are not idiots when it comes to key resources under their control. It doesn't matter if you're smarter than a clerk, if a doctor or lawyer fall for a scam, or if an executive paid a small fortune for a trivial item.
well one aspect that is not really talked about is confidence, most wealth gained from people who can present their idea confidently, a lot of confidence comes from security. a lot of americans (my family for instance) we’re brought over on a boat with a promise of a better life if we worked for someone, my family was indentured servants who were scammed into working for free when they got here. a few of us died, many never recovered, my parents at a young age got into a terrible crash so i spent most of my childhood taking care of my father instead of the other way around. being raised in a small town that didn’t value university schooling i resulted to working in construction which ended up as damaging my arm and i ended up in serious depression, pain medicine was given to me and i ended up getting addicted because it was the only thing that made me feel normal after the accident. i started coding at a very young age but was diagnosed with add but was never treated so as time went on, it became more and more difficult for me to focus. later on i finally decided to go to school and the first year i was there i had to drop out because i got my gf pregnant. that forced me to go back to construction but ended up quitting after a bad breakup. so yeah we all aren’t starting out the same, some of us have a severe handicap that is hard to explain during interviews
Because capitalism gives mostly money to people who exploit the labour of others.<p>You'll never become rich by working hard or smart. It's only possible through inheritance or extracting value created by others through profit.