Re:Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of th...
by ThomPete on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:37AM
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Its not a moot point at all, you are just simplifying it and thus end up creating a strawman no one ever argued.
It's luck in the way that BG happened to be at the right time at the right place as an entire industry exploded.
That does not mean he wasn't skilled, it doesn't mean that anyone could do it. It just means that the success it ended up becoming was not because of Bill Gates but because he happened to sell a product at the right time.
Hadn't he done it, someone else had.
So no its not a moot point unless you make a moot strawman.
Bill Gates saw the potential in the industry before it exploded, which is why he is considered skilled in business. This is pretty much the same with most super-successful business people.
I really don't like this attitude that success is mainly due to the luck of the draw. Sure there is luck, but it's the same luck involved in pretty much everything you do in life (you're lucky you didn't get hit by a car when you crossed the street), which makes it a moot point.