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Re:The radical moral implications of luck in human life (2020) by rhino369 on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:53AM (#34628275)
>But I know a lot of people who claim that Zuckerberg was just a lucky guy.

He isn't *just* lucky. But if theFacebook (a literal face book for harvard students) didn't go viral (which requires a great deal of luck), Mark Zuckerberg might be a middle manager at Google.

Of course there are a lot of people who couldn't execute if given that opportunity. Maybe very few who could.

But there are huge butterfly effects for these types of outlier outcomes in life.

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Re:The radical moral implications of luck in human life (2020) by credit_guy on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:30PM (#34635455)
> might be a middle manager at Google.

He would not have been only a "middle manager" at Google. Mark was (maybe still is) a 100x developer. He would have had a meteoric career at Google. By now, he would have $100 million in the bank.

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