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Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years by unethical_ban on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:28PM (#18081356)
Not taking sides, but I think you're presenting a false dichotomy. I think the point of the OP was "This is like hitting the lottery and encouraging everyone to buy numbers".

Most people don't win the lottery, so don't ever expect this to happen to you, no matter how hard you try. Again, my interpretation, not opinion.

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Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years by jacquesm on Thursday September 27, 2018 @03:09AM (#18082570)
That is true. But if you don't try you will never win. For the lottery to have winners some people would have to play the lottery. Hence the 'luck' factor (often under-rated or people pretend it is all skill).
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