Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs

Re:Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs by smokey_circles on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:30AM (#28326443)

>The children have had the advantage of a strong network of technology experts to call on for advice and help - but he is extremely proud of them.

Strange addition, a little defensive there BBC? Something something coal miners and programming

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Re:Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs by dukeyukey on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:38AM (#28326498)

I'm not sure what you mean, why wouldn't the BBC mention the children had advantages others don't? Isn't that just responsible story-writing?

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Re:Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs by willmw101 on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:15AM (#28327412)

While I get your point and would agree for some stories, I also don't think that's always necessary or even productive in a bigger picture sense. Sort of excusing away accomplishment by listing every advantage someone has or doesn't have is a good way to prime society to over index the effect of advantages/disadvantages and under index the effect of hard work.

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Re:Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs by dr-smooth on Friday August 27, 2021 @02:22PM (#28331268)

If you think this $290K was made through "hard work", you and I have very different definitions of work.

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