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Re:Focus Is Saying No to Good Ideas by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:20AM (#33259176)
> until they strike it rich on a single one.

and THEN they will start a nice side business where they brag about their success and what they did to ensure it - re-emphasising the survivorship bias.

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Re:Focus Is Saying No to Good Ideas by short_sells_poo on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @07:23AM (#33260498)
Ah yes, the good ole' "look at me working 3 hours a week afforded by selling advice on how to work 3 hours a week".

Or the "self made" success story who got just a "minor" cash injection of $500k from their parents' slush fund and then could afford to not generate any income for 5 years.

Unfortunately the stats on all these (and on this site in particular) are going to be extremely skewed. I'd hazard a guess that just the viewership of HN already heavily skews the sample towards a very privileged %ile of the total population.

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