Ask HN: Who else sick of “Rich” people teaching moral/life philosophy?

I'm not -- I have found Paul Graham's essays and Ray Dalio's book "Principles" to be quite interesting. No one is forced to read them.

I liked the stuff Dalio wrote before he wrote ‘Principles’ which I find insufferable. Some of Graham’s essays are good but the others put the lie to the idea that he’s a ‘good essayist’.

I, mean, I get what you're talking about. But it's like complaining that most of the writings we have from antiquity were written by the landed aristocracy class. Aurelius's Meditations was, after all, also written by a decidedly rich guy -- the emperor of the known world. Certainly a bit biased there. But they were the only people with the time, and with the access to the resources and labour, to propagate their ideas in multiple copies. Not much has fundamentally changed on that one.

Self made rich people lived life a certain way and made their money through a combination of hard work and luck. But you need to do a lot of work to be able to recognize and take advantage of luck when it presents itself, plus the risk taking mentality. There is a very big difference from a rich doctor or lawyer and a wealthy entrepreneur.

I don’t believe that all rich people “exploited” those that work for them. Private businesses have customers who (in a non-crony system) voluntarily chose to give them money. It is the most noble and honest way to earn a living.

So they have interesting stories to tell and things to say as they accomplished a rare thing a lot of people dream about. Makes sense to me.

>> I mean they become rich by putting everything on backseat

That's a pretty big assumption