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Why you need a proper and fundamental education to be successful in life [2007]
- te_platt 17y agoEspecially interesting for those who remember this story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=303780 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=303780
- aik 17y agoThis joke only works if "success == having lots of money" in your book.
- raganwald 17y agoI suggest to you that the joke also works if you strongly disagree with the equivalence between success and money. It probably falls flat with people who are indifferent to the relationship.
- icefox 17y agoDo people still think an M3 means success? Maybe 10 years ago, but these days M3's are mostly leased cars so the sense of exclusiveness / luxury seems gone.
- ardit33 17y agonah. I see a ton of kids, that don't make much money, scraping enough to buy one. But probably a Maserati Quatroporte will though.
- wallflower 17y agoThe rich people I know personally drive the Mercedes-Benz E-320.
- charlesju 17y agoMy take is this. You can make a ton of money without a formal education, but getting a formal education just improves your odds. If that stoner turned his life around and went to Yale then went to India, I'm sure he could have ended up the same. This is correlation, not causation.
- loup-vaillant 17y agoExcept if his education somehow make him say "gross!", in which case he would have missed this particular opportunity. (I agree, with you, by the way.)