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Re:What Bill Gates was doing at 20 years old by bluedevil2k on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:16AM (#16867106)
That's a rather broad generalization with no data to back it up. As an example otherwise, look at Bill Joy, founder of Sun and the son of a school vice-principal.

And so what if both just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Success isn't pre-ordained. There's always a little luck in every success story.

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Re:What Bill Gates was doing at 20 years old by maxerickson on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:18AM (#16867116)
It's not like you are bringing the data storm with your dismissals of the advantages of wealth in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Re:What Bill Gates was doing at 20 years old by bluedevil2k on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:05AM (#16867466)
You're the one trying to prove a point, I'm merely dismissing it as non-fact based.
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Re:What Bill Gates was doing at 20 years old by maxerickson on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:09AM (#16867501)
You literally said Being rich had nothing to do with him spending the better part of his teens at the local university, working on their computer.
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Re:What Bill Gates was doing at 20 years old by bluedevil2k on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:18AM (#16867564)
Yeah, he spent the time at the local university because he wanted to, not because he was rich.

"in the 1970s, that the majority of teenagers with access to computer time were quite well off." -- now that's a claim that has no facts backing it up

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