#277 Paul Graham's Essays Part 3

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What I learned from reading Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas From The Computer Age by Paul Graham

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  • How to make wealth there are a lot of ways to get rich, and this essay is about only one of them.

  • This essay is about how to make money by creating wealth and getting paid for it.

  • The advantage of creating wealth as a way to get rich is that it's more straightforward.

  • You just have to do something that people want.

  • Money is not wealth.

  • This paragraph is key to understanding this entire essay.

  • Wealth is the stuff we want.

  • Food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on.

  • You can have wealth without having money.

  • If you had a magic machine that could, on command, make you a car or cook you dinner or do anything else that you wanted, you wouldn't need money.

  • Whereas if you were in the middle of Antarctica where there's nothing to buy, it wouldn't matter how much money you had.

  • Wealth is what you want, not money.

  • But if wealth is the most important thing, why does everyone talk about making money?

  • It is a kind of shorthand.

  • Money is a way of moving wealth, and in practice they are usually interchangeable.

  • But they are not the same thing.

  • The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen.

  • Their handmade objects become store bought ones.

  • But with the rise of industrialization, there are fewer and fewer craftsmen.

  • One of the biggest remaining groups is is computer programmers.