What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly

Re:What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly by dsfasfasf on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @07:40PM (#5446760)

Because I'm feeling a bit (just a tiny bit, I feel I'm almost beyond that) envious I almost want to celebrate your comment. Although there is a lot of true into this we have to admit that even kids born into riches are not that much more likely to be a world success. Because unless you have the will/desire to succeed you probably won't get that far. (Going to an ivy league school and working a nice cushy job is not enough in my book)

Granted, some people have been put closer to the finish line then most of us but I rather not take that as an excuse to explain away my lack of success.

p.s. I grew up in NYC to a working class poor immigrant family. The fact that I grew up in NYC is all the head start I needed. So far I've made to graduate school. There is still a long road ahead. No use complaining about which family I was born into.

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Re:What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly by rayiner on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @09:34PM (#5447225)

Define "success." Being born into a rich family and going to an Ivy league school won't get you an instant $30m in the bank, but unless the apple really falls far from the tree, you won't have to try very hard to get into the top 5% in a country where even below-median people live pretty well. Not a bad ROI on simply choosing your parents well.

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Re:What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly by rhizome on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @02:16PM (#5451064)

we have to admit that even kids born into riches are not that much more likely to be a world success.

They are MUCH less likely to wind up bleeding out on a streetcorner in the Tenderloin or creaking along on subsistence wages. It's rarely about "world success."

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