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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

So much of it is luck, starting from birth onwards.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Yep. I was going to write that maybe somebody like Warren Buffett would stand out as the real deal who is consistent and could do it again. But even if that’s true and he is 100% unique skill, he STILL got very lucky by birth.

[-] agegamon@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

He won the birth lottery, as it were

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