Also, when Nozick made his Wilt argument, Chamberlain was making ~20 times the median American income. Today every single player on every NBA team makes more than that. The best players make ~800 times as much as the median American (and 40x the Wilt equivalent salary today).
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias)
I think it’s interesting that going back at least as far as Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain the go-to examples for this argument are always celebrity entertainers when obviously the vast majority of extreme wealth is either successful founders, successful investors, or their heirs.
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