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Ray Dalio

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

Ray Dalio

Society

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Society tends to compensate individuals based on the value or usefulness of their contributions to its needs and desires. Therefore, the amount of money someone has earned roughly reflects how much they have provided what society demands.

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