Luca Netz on growing up poor but seeing how billionaires lived every summer
"We grew up really poor but my dad was an ex-tennis pro who taught tennis to all the billionaires in the Hamptons. On the summers I'd go there and see these really rich guys, tens of billions of dollars.
I was gonna yap about how most of us didn’t deserve to make it and got lucky but came to the conclusion that there’s no such thing as “deserving it” in our world. It’s a random game and the only success formula that works here is to maximize your luck surface area while
You never deserved the money anyways so you’d never keep it. In almost all realities you will revert back to the person you’re always meant to be.
Painfully average.