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[quote=Anonymous]Hey guys, it's me.  Debbie Downer.  I know, you've missed me.  But something came to mind when I read this article, and this thread, that bugged me.  Zuckerburg, Bill Gates, this lady, what do they all have in common?  They came from affluent families.  I can't tell you the last time I read about some technology titan who came from nothing or was born poor, or at least working class.  Of course you're going to be able to make the most out of your brilliance if your parents are paying for summer Mandarin courses at Stanford.  But I wonder, would a girl like this whose parents *couldn't* afford Stanford, or all of that enrichment, would she have been able to make it as far as she has?  Is that the country we live in now?  Do we like it this way?  By no means do I want to diminish this woman's accomplishments and I think she is fabulous, but there was this nagging feeling as I read the article about everything her parents had done for her, and how all of her professors and teachers saw this brilliance in her, and it made me think "but what if she was poor?"  If her parents were working two shifts or barely making ends meet and they lived in a not-so-great school district, would anyone have seen that brilliance?  Would anyone have cared?  And how many brilliant kids with world-changing ideas are we losing as a result?[/quote]

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