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JT45242

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2. Overwhelmingly the luck was on the birth lottery

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 07:44 AM

17 hrs ago

Start up money from family wealth...Thiel, Musk, The Felon...

Then you gave the Uber lucky...why did Facebook beat MySpace?

Why were people too stupid to use a simple MP3 player for a fraction of the cost of an iPod (people forget apple was teetering on bankruptcy when that cane out)?

Why was ToysRUs so stupid to let Bezos and Amazon be the landing page and not just a behind the scenes contractor?

But overwhelmingly it is birth lottery.

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At some point you realize that the prominent, powerful people you see on your screens are mostly morons who got lucky. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves 18 hrs ago OP

This sounds like a good business model- uggh Redleg 17 hrs ago #1

Overwhelmingly the luck was on the birth lottery JT45242 17 hrs ago #2