If you read closely what I said, I wasn&#x27;t really disagreeing with you. You are attacking a &quot;straw man&quot;: I never said the result is fair (quite the opposite!), or that the people who earn higher salaries do so because they are brilliant.<p>You made one valid critique of what I said: I agree with you that many (maybe even most) &quot;ridiculously rich&quot; people probably benefited from nepotism, crony-ism and general corruption. There are plenty of examples in non-capitalist societies too (Soviet Russia, Venezuela, Cuba).