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> Zuckerberg and Gates would have been elite if they’d never worked a day in their lives. What do you mean by that? Zuckerberg and Gates are indisputably elite
by losvedir 7y ago
> Zuckerberg and Gates would have been elite if they’d never worked a day in their lives.
What do you mean by that? Zuckerberg and Gates are indisputably elite because they're two of the richest people in the world.
But I wouldn't call them elite beforehand, and definitely not if they didn't work a day in their lives. Their parents' money seems to come from being a lawyer, a dentist, and a psychiatrist. That's not "elite", that's something any family can achieve in two generations.
- sansnomme 7y agoGates' family was in banking, Zuckerberg attended Phillips Exeter. Neither were hardly "Middle Class".
- losvedir 7y agoI didn't call them "Middle Class". I said they weren't elite. While elite people are in banking and elite people go to Phillips Exeter, it doesn't follow that everyone who does those things is elite. You could argue a much lower threshold for elite, which is fine, but then it's quite a bait and switch to lead with Zuckerberg and Gates for that category.
- sansnomme 7y agoI will just link to this. https://philip.greenspun.com/bg/ https://philip.greenspun.com/bg/