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[alister]

On Mon, 09 May 2016 03:12:14 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Sun, 8 May 2016 08:21 pm, Cai Gengyang wrote:
> 
>> If one looks at the Forbes List, you will see that there are 4
>> programmers amongst the top ten richest people in the world (Bill
>> Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and Jeff Bezos) , a very large
>> percentage. Science and Technology is in a sense the most egalitarian
>> field in the world, because it involves using your brains and
>> creativity. You don't need to have a father who is a director at
>> Goldman Sachs or a mother who is the admissions officer at Harvard to
>> succeed in this line.
> 
> Bill Gates III's father was a prominent lawyer, his mother was on the
> board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and United Way, and
> one of his grandfathers was a national bank president. Gates himself
> went to Harvard.
> 
> Zuckerberg's paternal grandparents were successful middle class,
> described as  being the first on the block to own a colour TV. (This was
> back in the days when colour TVs were an expensive toy that few could
> afford.) His parents were also very successful professionals: a dentist
> and a psychiatrist. And he too went to Harvard. Despite the jeans and
> tee-shirts Zuckerberg is known for wearing, he's firmly from the
> professional/upper class.
> 
> Bezos comes from a family of land-holders from Texas. His grandfather
> was regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and was
> financially successful enough to retire at an early age. He didn't go to
> Harvard, but he did go to Princeton.
> 
> Ellison is the son of an unwed mother who gave him up for adoption by
> her aunt and uncle, comfortably middle-class. That makes him the closest
> out of the group as a "regular guy".

And at least 2 of the above reached their position using business 
practices that could be described as less than 100% honorable & above 
board.




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