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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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[–] 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...