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There is a whole genre of get-rich-quick scammers claiming that exact thing:
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-scam-lawsuit-bowser-washing...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/men-p...
Just because something is possible does not mean it is common. Why didn't all the hard-working software entrepreneurs from the 1980s end up like Bill Gates? Discounting luck and good timing leads to the Horatio Alger fallacy.
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There is a whole genre of get-rich-quick scammers claiming that exact thing:
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-scam-lawsuit-bowser-washing...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/men-p...
Just because something is possible does not mean it is common. Why didn't all the hard-working software entrepreneurs from the 1980s end up like Bill Gates? Discounting luck and good timing leads to the Horatio Alger fallacy.