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0 pointswatwut6y ago0 comments

> Empirically, people with kids almost never achieve outlier levels of success

I really don't think this is true statistically. Plenty of outliers with kids, as far as kids go.

Moreover, argument is not true, especially for men. Many men leave most of care and career sacrifice on their wifes. They may be slightly inconvenienced by kids here and there, but actually spend equal or even more time in work then before. (Cause home isore boring and wife less friendly now)

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georgewsinger6y ago· 7 in thread

Name 5 people who will be remembered in 100 years and who had kids before starting their Grand Project. It's pretty hard.

cadlin6y ago

Every single one of the past five presidents?

diehunde6y ago

what project would that be?

WarOnPrivacy6y ago

They tend to launch both simultaneously (eg: Henry Ford).

Reality might skew a little in tech because of some high profile successes that occurred while founders were absurdly young.

GoblinSlayer6y ago

I heard, Bill Gates' mother helped him with the start.

watwutOP6y ago

Honorable mention: Anthony Fauci but he won't be remembered in 100 years. But, who will? J.k.Rowling, Donald Trump, Barack Obama. Then I am out of ideas, through I can think of both childless and non childless people.

Not slowed down by children: Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin, Goering, Speer. (I happened to read about that period a lot).

Bill Gates, Musk also have children, but I don't think business owners are remembered that long. Plus, Elon Musk is not active father. More if sponsor from what I heard. The "remembered after 100 years" basically limits me to politicians making massive changes. But if you check those who won Nobel prize, they have plenty children too. And writers have them too.

Seriously, career of males are not much harmed by children. It used to be an advantage even

Pyxl1016y ago

The question is whether they had children when they began their ambitious project. Bill Gates was definitely childless when he started Microsoft. He met his wife Melinda through Microsoft; she was an employee. I don't know about Musk but the question is whether he had kids when founding Paypal.

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atleta6y ago

Age is a pretty strong confounder here, for more than one reason.

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