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Still the comment about citing one unique sample to overthrow a general assessment from much larger sample size... You seem to be blindly lucky and do not real

• pmoriarty 7y ago
  My entire point is that you can be lucky (and smart, if I can flatter myself so) but not rich. It can take more than intelligence and luck, it could take a desire and a choice to make money a big priority in your life, which it rarely was for me. If Bill Gates had said "Fuck Microsoft, I don't want to do this shit anymore" and quit early on in his career, (which, if he had free will, he could have done at any point) then he probably wouldn't have wound up the richest person in the world, no matter how lucky he was. He chose to do what he did (didn't he?), and that (in large part) was what made him unimaginably rich.
• newfangle 7y ago
  This article isnt referencing a "general assesment", its based on a computer model that tried to simulate human behavior. Its clear that you need to be lucky to become a billionaire but i think a more interesting question is how much luck is involved in becoming a multi millionaire.