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#277 Paul Graham's Essays Part 3

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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 is

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 traveled interesting places. And so on.

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