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[Cai Gengyang]

I am guessing that the 2 you mentioned are Bill Gates and Larry Ellison ? I heard that they have tons of lawsuits against them in their career (anti-monopoly, anti-competitive laws filed against them both from the government and from individuals) ?

Paul Graham has this very interesting related essay on meanness and success ----------------------http://paulgraham.com/mean.html






On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 1:53:31 AM UTC+8, alister wrote:
> 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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> Wait ... is this a FUN THING or the END of LIFE in Petticoat Junction??