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0 pointsjiofih5y ago0 comments

Your mention of Musk should raise an alarm to your sense of reality. He comes from a well off family, moved to Canada at 17 to attend university. This alone already puts him at the top 1% of humanity in terms of privilege. Then he went on to attend Stanford...

Not that it takes away from any of his achievements, but you are failing hard at realizing what things actually look like.

> It's also totally feasible to position yourself so that even if you fail you can still land on your feet, you just have to be conscious of it

This is the famous “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” said by someone who’s obviously never had to.

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ackbar035y ago

My point about musk was more about his own children and relationships and how "family obligations" should be an obvious consideration if you want to start your own company. You shouldn't really complain about it after the fact.

But fair enough, I'm not going to argue too much. Reading through the comments it seems that access to decent education and a stable family seems to be a generous assumption for many people around the world. I would say where I grow up in Asia, cases of abusive/dysfunctional families tends to be less than the west, and people in general have decent access to and awareness of the importance of education. There are a fair number of successful entrepreneurs who used to be villagers, mostly because a fairly large portion of people were farmers back then

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