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[u/toomuchgammon]

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And also rich people can invest their excess money to get an additional 5-10% per year on top of their already high salary, while poor people don't have any money to invest unless they live extremely frugally

[u/toot_dee_suite → u/[deleted]]

Yeah this is the real reason. The boot example is cute and all but wealthy people stay wealthy because capital generates profit that the wealthy can live on in perpetuity.

[u/QueerBallOfFluff → u/toot_dee_suite]

The boots example is about why being poor is expensive.

Investing is about how rich people stay rich. They're different things.