it was not till the Industrial Revolution that wealth creation definitively replaced corruption as the best way to get rich. - Paul Graham

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it was not till the Industrial Revolution that wealth creation definitively replaced corruption as the best way to get rich.

Paul Graham
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
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About Paul Graham

Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.

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