News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Once poor, always poor?. Parent comment

Re:Once poor, always poor? by rbanffy on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:42AM (#29703985)
> Most of my classmates are doing quite well, and I'm working at Google - with a fellow classmate, literally in the 1% now (both of us, out of a class of only 8).

What happened to those who didn’t study CS? How are they doing?

We far too frequently look into our bubbles as if they reflected the world around us. They don’t.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Once poor, always poor? by onlyrealcuzzo on Monday December 27, 2021 @06:54PM (#29708435)
Since I went to a shitty school, there weren't many rich kids.

The rich kids I knew are all doing way worse than their parents. Not surprising? It's hard and takes a lot of luck to be in the 0.1%.

All of my friends are doing quite well, almost all of them better then their parents.

Is this anecdata helpful? Did I self-select to be friends with successful people? I don't know...

[ Parent | on HN ]