As it turns out, having money did not make him feel particularly good. “I felt conflicted about it. I gave some to two museums I cared about, to my old college, to some other charities, but it wasn’t actually about wealth distribution.” What it was about, at the bottom, was luck. “This transformative financial life event—I didn’t feel like I deserved it,” Slavin explains. “Yes, I worked like an animal, and we did do something that was innovative, but that was also true of lots of other people I knew, and I knew other people who worked harder and nothing happened for them.” It was a chain of
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