Changes at YC - Hackdot

Re:Changes at YC by andsoitis on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @01:04AM (#35147637)

> I think thus it's very easy to guess that Elon would not be a hundred billionaire, or billionaire at all, if he was the exact same brain born to some working class family in south africa.

There are many brilliant people in South Africa who are born into wealth and none of them have reached the same heights as Elon Musk.

Even if it were the case, wouldn't your argument then predict that there would be many people MUCH wealthier than him because they were born into the vast riches and privilege that is America and Europe?

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Re:Changes at YC by ScoobleDoodle on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @03:51AM (#35148491)

It’s a necessary but not sufficient condition.

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Re:Changes at YC by gspetr on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:12AM (#35148604)

Necessary? This statement does not hold any water.

Jeff Bezos used to work as a cook at McDonalds in his teenage years.

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Re:Changes at YC by komali2 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:15AM (#35148959)

Sure but he grew up in river oaks, the local rich neighborhood to me, and his family had a massive ranch. So his rich parents made him work for spending money, dude grew up in a rich family. Didn't his family also invest a couple hundred thousand in Amazon's early days?

Ugh, I'll be honest, I'm kinda tired of this "debate." We're really going to keep peddling the myth that any hard working joe can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and become a billionaire? That's the tale we're telling with a straight face in 2023?

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Re:Changes at YC by andsoitis on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @03:22PM (#35157015)

Here are 10 billionaires who grew up poor:

- Oprah Winfrey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey)

- Howard Schultz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Schultz)

- Ralph Lauren (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lauren)

- Larry Ellison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison)

- Kenneth Langone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Langone)

- David Murdock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Murdock)

- Alan Gerry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gerry)

- John Paul DeJoria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_DeJoria)

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Re:Changes at YC by komali2 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @08:41PM (#35176714)

10? So less likely than winning the lottery.

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