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Re:Kevin Rose Will Join Google by joering2 on Thursday March 15, 2012 @02:59PM (#3709988)
> If you were worth getting $1.7MM to piss away you would have had $1.7MM to piss away.

So you are implying that a luck and contacts and more other things such as your experience, geolocation, etc. don't matter as long as you are worth getting $X, you will have $X to piss away.

uhm, is there any website to sign up? I want to try my skills against it -- perhaps I am "worth it".

Re:Kevin Rose Will Join Google by samstave on Thursday March 15, 2012 @03:38PM (#3710176)
Yeah he is saying that money is the only meaningful measure of success.
Re:Kevin Rose Will Join Google by smacktoward on Thursday March 15, 2012 @03:56PM (#3710265)
And that everybody earns every penny that they really should. Nobody's ever born the wrong color or gender or nationality, or ever has bad luck that prevents them from fulfilling their potential.