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What I am doing is falsifying your hypothesis. If being born to rich parents, having connections, and going to boarding schools is the sole reason people get ri
by philwelch 4y ago
What I am doing is falsifying your hypothesis. If being born to rich parents, having connections, and going to boarding schools is the sole reason people get rich, then we would expect that people with richer parents and more connections who went to better boarding schools than Elon Musk would be richer, and people who grew up in similar conditions to Elon Musk would be equally rich. This is not true.
- david927 4y ago> What I am doing is falsifying your hypothesis That is not what you are doing. You are picking a winning lottery number and saying why did this number win and others not? That's faulty logic.
- philwelch 4y agoNo, I’m looking at two “lottery tickets” with the exact same numbers and asking why one of them one the jackpot and the other one didn’t. The only conclusion: it’s not a lottery and what you have picked out as the winning lottery numbers are not that.
- david927 4y agoYou're really bad at logic but you're confident in it; that's not a good combination.
- endisneigh 4y agoTo be fair you'd have to compare people who had the same circumstances and desires, not simply both being rich.