The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)

Re:The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the ri... by onetimemanytime on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:18AM (#18873312)

Let's give some credit to Bill, ok? How many Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Astors, Rothchilds, Waltons etc etc did what Bill Gates did? Combined, they have thousands of offsprings and had way more money that Gates' father had.

So yeah, Bill cam from a well to-do family but he also was extremely {insert here}...

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Re:The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the ri... by JBiserkov on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:28AM (#18873359)

So yeah, Bill cam from a well to-do family [and has amazing talents] but he also was extremely lucky...

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Re:The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the ri... by whatshisface on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:22AM (#18873336)

The group that spawned Bill Gates was smaller than the entire human population; it means he was one in maybe a thousand as opposed to one in seven billion. If anything that should be encouraging to the average person in society because it indicates that there isn't an uncrossable intelligence or otherwise biological gulch between the average person and success (which would be even harder to change than a social one).

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Re:The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the ri... by turtlecloud on Friday January 11, 2019 @12:38AM (#18881262)

Anderson cooper was a Vanderbilt. Different but still similar in how he got to the high rungs of news anchoring

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