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[RobRivera]

I cannot tell if this is a chatgpt or someone with mild bad grammar.

EDIT: I see post comment, the parent i responded to has thus rewritten their comment.

[echelon]

I wonder when HN will fill up with ChatGPT responses. I'm kind of terrified about it being a testing/proving ground for this sort of activity.

I give Reddit and Twitter a year, maybe two, before 99% of the discourse is non-human. There's not going to be any stopping it without strict identification - state ID, driver's license, passport. The days of pseudonymity look to be not long for this earth.

[FpUser]

This is clearly bot work (or made in a state of delirium). Why is it not removed I have no idea.

[AnimalMuppet]

Can anyone explain to me what possible relation the parent has to the GP? It looks like it's someone who veered off onto their particular hobby horse, even though it has no relation to the topic at hand.

Am I missing something, or is the parent really as off-topic as it appears?

[komali2]

General anti-capitalist critique, specifically of monopolists like Bill Gates. I tend to veer off in this direction as well so I get it.

[echelon]

> Bezos had dozens with tens of thousands just lying around to buy into his vision.

Bezos didn't come from wealth. Don't attribute his success to nepotism. He was shrewd, clever, cunning, at the right place at the right time, and made all of the right calls.

[brewdad]

Bezos didn’t come from the same wealth as the other examples but he did accept $300,000 in start up capital from his parents to get Amazon going. That’s not something available to the average joe.

[kasey_junk]

Bezos’ grandfather owned a 25000 acre ranch in Texas. I don’t know that nepotism was a factor but that’s a fair amount of wealth in his family.

[tick_tock_tick]

> Bill Gates’ father was a founding partner of huge law firm, Musk’s family gem mine is well known. Bezos had dozens with tens of thousands just lying around to buy into his vision. Trump got a meager 1 million kick start.

So what your saying is thousands of people start with the same or an even higher level of opportunity and still fail to achieve even a fraction of what they did?

[themitigating]

I think he's saying that if you have a leg up from the start it greatly improved your chances of success.

Of course Gates and Musk deserve credit for making good decisions and putting in the effort but maybe not the God like status (really Musk) people ascribe to them.

[echelon]

Wealth multiplies the probability of success by a small, but non-negligible factor. It is not necessary or sufficient to achieve breakout success, but the effects of incumbent wealth do make the path easier and less risky.