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Re:Bitcoin hits $1T in market value by icedchai on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:40PM (#26197783)
You're defining "self made" to fit a very narrow definition. All the things you say are true to an extent, but it's not black-and-white. Would you consider Bill Gates self made, considering the magnitude of his achievements, etc?
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Re:Bitcoin hits $1T in market value by iso1210 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @02:28PM (#26207028)
Not only did he have the advantages that access to a computer in the 70s had, his dad's lawyer helped him with a good contract, and his mom set him up with the chairman of IBM

But the key thing is if he'd failed, he had a cushion to fall back on. Had Microsoft gone the same way as many other computer companies, he could be confident he wouldn't end up on the streets.

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Re:Bitcoin hits $1T in market value by icedchai on Saturday February 20, 2021 @06:38PM (#26209197)
But he succeeded... and created something worth many orders of magnitude in value compared to what he started with... I think that still counts as self made.
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