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Who could have forseen the woes of capitalism? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by balderdash9@lemmy.zip to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t Bill Gates revolutionize home computing for the average user?

By literally stealing DR DOS, swapping the drive letters for the hard drive and floppy disk, and rebranding as MS DOS

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Also mustve been nice to have a mom on the board of IBM to help get a massive deal for his startup.....

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/how-bill-gates-mother-influenced-the-success-of-microsoft.html

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 14 points 9 months ago

It's always some "started on 3rd base" bullshit with these "self made" billionaires...

Even with "common" people I see this shit and it kills me. I was watching some bullshit "I did x and so can you!" video and this fucker goes on to explain how he had company backing, previous experience, consultants to sit with, and a previous degree...

Yeah guy, I can totally just do that too...