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In reply to the discussion: VOX: This Trump voter didn't think Trump was serious about repealing her health insurance [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(15,511 posts)I looked at my earlier link and noticed that someone left a comment about his mother's influence. Then another person replied to him: "The fact that Bill Gate's father was a contract lawyer that had written contracts for some of the biggest companies in America helped too."
I have little doubt that Bill Gates worked hard, but that's true for many poor people as well. It would take a person making minimum wage in Ohio about 590,000 years of full-time employment to reach the purported wealth of Trump. That's longer than the age of modern humans.
What kills me is that there's some people (mostly Republicans) who give all the credit to Trump and don't give credit to the people associated with him who did most of the REAL work such as building construction and many other tasks along the way. (Not to mention how often Trump screwed over contractors.)
It's a pro-authoritarian sickness of attitude as far as I'm concerned.
Going back to Gates, I was flabbergasted to see him on some kind of computer trivia TV show many years ago to witness him unable to answer many very simple questions on the subject... answers that I knew despite only being a math/physics student who grudgingly took a few computer programming classes in college! That's when I immediately knew that Gates relied heavily on more talented people under him.