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Like playing chess, painting or writing novels, money making is a specialized skill.

But for some reason we view and treat the skill of moneymaking differently.

No one complains when a few people surpass the rest at playing chess, painting, or writing novels,

but when a few people make more money than the rest, we get editorials and protest saying that it is

raw.

Why is this?

The pattern of effort and skill variation is no different than for any other skill, so what causes people to react so strongly

when the skill is making money? I think the biggest factor is what I call the B of MD trap or the bank of mom and dad trap.

I'll explain.

When you are five years old, you think electricity is created by the electric sockets.

You don't realize that there are power plants somewhere way out there

generating the actual electricity. Likewise, it doesn't occur to kids that wealth is something

that has to be generated.

It seems to be something that just flows from parents.

Because of how children encounter it,

they tend to misunderstand wealth.

They confuse it with money. They think that there is a fixed amount of it

and they think of it as something that is distributed by authorities rather than something that has to be created.

Because kids are unable to create wealth themselves,

whatever they have, has been given to them.

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