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Re:America's Startup Scene Is Looking Anemic by s2g on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:54PM (#17258974)
> $1000 is literally 2 weeks of overtime working at a McDonalds for the federal minimum wage - $7.25.

If you don't have to do anything else with that money.

My parents couldn't have spared 1000 bucks just because when I was younger.

Musk grew up wealthy. He's the child of rich white south africans.

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Re:America's Startup Scene Is Looking Anemic by TangoTrotFox on Friday June 08, 2018 @01:16AM (#17262771)
He was in college! In college now a days the the average kid is going to have thousands in his bank account due to the way student loans are tossed out like candy. Or in the case where that is not true, taking two weeks off to work, or even staying in college and getting in internship and people can easily get thousands on their own. There are just so many sad excuses.
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