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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by kamaal on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:32AM (#13939527)
>>You attribute far too much of a person's wealth accumulation with skill. Is Bill Gates the best programmer of all time?

Bill Gates is good at a lot of other things including programming.

And I'm not talking about skill. Its also work, persistence and variety of other things that add up.

>>It's hard to argue with this, but I don't see it coming up much in the gender or race discussions. I wonder why.

People are only equal by rights. They are definitely not equal with regards to hard work, persistence and range of other skills.

Isaac Newton being better than me in Physics, isn't exactly racism.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by pyrale on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:10AM (#13939848)
> Bill Gates is good at a lot of other things including programming. And I'm not talking about skill. Its also work, persistence and variety of other things that add up.

According to the metrics our society uses to reward him, he's quite litterally the 85.000.000.000x dev.

And here's us thinking 10x devs don't exist...

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