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"Provably false"? Ok go ahead. I wouldn't be surprised if 1/3 to 1/2 on the people on HN came up from a disadvantaged or poverty background. I don't remember
by khaki54 6y ago
"Provably false"? Ok go ahead.
I wouldn't be surprised if 1/3 to 1/2 on the people on HN came up from a disadvantaged or poverty background. I don't remember my "very rare" lucky break, but I do remember making a lot of very inconvenient but responsible decisions that took years to pay off.
- kennywinker 6y agoThe point is not that you received a lucky break, it's that you DIDN'T receive a smack-down. Your luck was that you didn't have an overwhelming stroke of bad-luck. Unlike people from disadvantaged backgrounds, someone coming from a situation of wealth can get all kinds of strokes of bad luck and still prosper. As for provably false - here's a decent starting place for your research https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/rags-riches https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/rags-riche...
- UncleMeat 6y agoI'd be stunned if it were this high. Absolutely stunned. The poverty rate in the US is 10-15%. You are claiming that people born into poverty appear at twice the background rate among techie communities.