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		throwawaymsft on April 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why isn’t New Zealand richer and more productive? The starving artists, musicians, olympic athletes, and startup founders are temporarily not-yet-rich. Not having won isn't the problem, it's being satisfied and not playing the game which society shuns.

niels_olson on April 19, 2014 [–]

For most of those folks, temporary is going to prove to be a very long time.

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