Such a claim really reeks of elitism and predeterminism. Everybody has similar inherent capacities as long as you're not born with some serious disorder. it's j

Such a claim really reeks of elitism and predeterminism. Everybody has similar inherent capacities as long as you're not born with some serious disorder. it's just that some people work harder, plan better and are more obsessed with certain ("success" or fame for example) that others don't necessarily do etc., so they appear to be more efficient at certain things. Even then still they're just maybe 50% better than other coworkers. "10x" is a ridiculously huge number and of course if you compare top programmers with college freshmen then maybe you'll get this amount but if such a discrepancy exists in a professional company then probably it hired some extremely shitty programmer and the management should thoroughly reflect upon what went wrong. That'd be the only explanation. It's like if in a professional soccer club's first team the best player is literally "10x" better than the average players then the club must have some serious issues and the top player won't stay for long anyways before he goes off to a team that makes more sense.