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> You can't prove it's impossible to do what he did today. Others are actively doing it. There is a whole genre of get-rich-quick scammers claiming that exact
by throwaway218649 8y ago
> You can't prove it's impossible to do what he did today. Others are actively doing it.
There is a whole genre of get-rich-quick scammers claiming that exact thing:
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-scam-lawsuit-bowser-washington/ https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-scam-lawsuit-bowser-washing...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/men-peddling-secrets-getting-rich-amazon/578443/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/men-p...
Just because something is possible does not mean it is common. Why didn't all the hard-working software entrepreneurs from the 1980s end up like Bill Gates? Discounting luck and good timing leads to the Horatio Alger fallacy.
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