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Gates did. Not sure either Musk or Jobs had rich families. You may want to check that.

by wenc 7y ago

fybe 7y ago
Musk's family owned an emerald mine in south africa
- johnsimer 7y ago
  Nope, that business insider article had no sources, and according to Musk is false
pretendscholar 7y ago
>Not sure either Musk or Jobs had rich families. You may want to check that. Doesn't that mean you should be the one checking?
sir_kin 7y ago
Musk 100% comes from wealth [1]. In America, there's the whole mythos of the rags-to-riches American dream. Some people whose story is really riches-to-more-riches present their success as the former. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-dad-tells-bi-about-the-familys-casual-attitude-to-wealth-2018-2/commerce-on-business-insider https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-dad-tells-bi-abou...
- bluedevilzn 7y ago
  Elon recently confirmed that this store is not true on twitter. It's inside a reply thread so can't find the source at the moment.
bsanr2 7y ago
Doing your homework for you: Jobs had an unusually international background; was born to highly-educated parents who made sure he went to a suitable family when they put him up for adoption; grew up in a relatively wealthy, highly-educated community that was the hotbed of a nascent industry; and was able to do drugs, an experience here considered life-altering, without being arrested or sent to jail. I know the word "privilege" is anathema here, but it applies, even if neither his biological nor adoptive parents were necessarily rolling in dough.
- minblaster 7y ago
  Yes, doing drugs in the 60s was a real privilege. He almost didn’t get adopted because his adoptive parents weren’t well educated enough. And he dropped out of college because he was burning his parents life savings. He had a wonder years middle class life.
  - bsanr2 7y ago
    He was born in 55, so I imagine we're talking more about the 70s. And yeah, not being arrested for doing illegal drugs is a privilege. And according to his wiki article, he ended up with the parents he did because they promised to send him to college; education was at the heart of the decision-making there. >He had a wonder years middle class life. In the middle of the tech revolution's ground zero. In fact, being on a lower rung of the upper-middle class ladder might have been protective, in that he had access, but not too much access. In other words, enough resources (that most Americans of the time did not have) to get off the ground, without being tracked into less risky, more conventional, still lucrative work.

Gates did. Not sure either Musk or Jobs had rich families. You may want to check that.

by wenc 7y ago

Gates did. Not sure either Musk or Jobs had rich families. You may want to check that.

fybe 7y ago

Musk's family owned an emerald mine in south africa

johnsimer 7y ago
Nope, that business insider article had no sources, and according to Musk is false

pretendscholar 7y ago

>Not sure either Musk or Jobs had rich families. You may want to check that. Doesn't that mean you should be the one checking?

sir_kin 7y ago

Musk 100% comes from wealth [1]. In America, there's the whole mythos of the rags-to-riches American dream. Some people whose story is really riches-to-more-riches present their success as the former. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-dad-tells-bi-about-the-familys-casual-attitude-to-wealth-2018-2/commerce-on-business-insider https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-dad-tells-bi-abou...

bluedevilzn 7y ago
Elon recently confirmed that this store is not true on twitter. It's inside a reply thread so can't find the source at the moment.

bsanr2 7y ago

Doing your homework for you: Jobs had an unusually international background; was born to highly-educated parents who made sure he went to a suitable family when they put him up for adoption; grew up in a relatively wealthy, highly-educated community that was the hotbed of a nascent industry; and was able to do drugs, an experience here considered life-altering, without being arrested or sent to jail. I know the word "privilege" is anathema here, but it applies, even if neither his biological nor adoptive parents were necessarily rolling in dough.

minblaster 7y ago
Yes, doing drugs in the 60s was a real privilege. He almost didn’t get adopted because his adoptive parents weren’t well educated enough. And he dropped out of college because he was burning his parents life savings. He had a wonder years middle class life.
- bsanr2 7y ago
  He was born in 55, so I imagine we're talking more about the 70s. And yeah, not being arrested for doing illegal drugs is a privilege. And according to his wiki article, he ended up with the parents he did because they promised to send him to college; education was at the heart of the decision-making there. >He had a wonder years middle class life. In the middle of the tech revolution's ground zero. In fact, being on a lower rung of the upper-middle class ladder might have been protective, in that he had access, but not too much access. In other words, enough resources (that most Americans of the time did not have) to get off the ground, without being tracked into less risky, more conventional, still lucrative work.