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If you think it's the class system that's holding you back from being Elon Musk, you're the one holding yourself back.

• dang 9y ago
  That's not what buf said. On HN, please be charitable when interpreting others, in the sense of responding to the strongest plausible interpretation of their meaning. It makes discussions more interesting and flamewars less likely.
  • rootlocus 9y ago
    Perhaps you can find a more charitable interpretation for my comment? If it's not what he said, then it doesn't apply to him. But if it does, it is my personal opinion that people can free themselves of the mindset that how others see them affects what they can or can not do.
    • dang 9y ago
      If I were going to discuss the issue with you, I would! (or at least I hope I would). But my comments in threads like this are limited to the very different issue of what builds vs. destroys substantive conversation on HN.
• realusername 9y ago
  The class system is obviously holding everyone back, that's why you have poor neighbourhoods and poor cities instead of just poor individuals. And every statistic you see tends to show the class system. Elon Musk is just a statistical error and even then wasn't even coming from a poor family in the first place.
  • urethrafranklin 9y ago
    It's fair to say he came from a pretty upper class background. Wealthy/famous parents, went to the best schools, started an early web company with his dad's money, became part of paypal mafia.