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mattm on Aug 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modeling a Wealth Tax

If Bill Gates was born to poor parents there's a >99% chance he could not produce a Microsoft.

prepend on Aug 19, 2020 [–]

His parents weren’t billionaires. There’s a big difference between being born poor lowering risk of success and 99.999% being born non-aristocracy preventing success.

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