I guess my point is we don't have millions of outstanding programmers for this reason. That Ecole school does not look as bad. What I am referring to common pr

I guess my point is we don't have millions of outstanding programmers for this reason. That Ecole school does not look as bad. What I am referring to common practice of working for virtually free in government assigned contracts that you can't even quit for 3 years, this is happening South Korea and CIS countries. And those places are far from elite French schools. Lots of people so dragged down by bad work and government they can't fully flourish into Outstanding Programmers and make good projects. That being said, there is something those individuals still can do, albeit little and low chances, to improve their odds and just have, like, physical time to survive and make some good stuff. Some examples, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kistiakowsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kistiakowsky Russian joined Anti-Communist White Army during Russian Revolution at WWI, fought for two years, got wounded, escaped to Turkey, got into USA, become professor of chemistry at Harvard, become important member of team that built atomic bomb in WWII. Was leading USA mission to Soviet for military scientific exchange as asked by Roosevelt. When first atomic bomb went off, he was not in bunker, but outside for “better view”. After WWII served scientific adviser to USA president. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_M._Poniatoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_M._Poniatoff Some Russian guy out of nowhere in Tundra, in cold trip got told a story of a beautiful place, weather is always nice, and lots of opportunity — San Francisco. So he decided to move there. He made it to Shanghai. Then moved to San Francisco in 1927 and made company and equipment for audio recordings AMPEX in 1944 — his initials plus “x” for “excellence”. This company later created VR-1000 video-tape recorder.