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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prestige is a great substitute for talent. Ask me how I know [/quote]
 
Sure. But prestige + talent is killer.  Those who get in RD unhooked 3% acceptance rates [/quote]

The question was about future success.[/quote]

That's what I'm talking about.  The kids that are naturally very smart AND hard workers.  They got in on their own moxy and hard work---not a hook, not early, etc.  Those types have a lot of future success as they keep working.  [/quote]

Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Clinton, Obama where prestige met talent.  Didn't come from privilege. Attended prestigious university, worked hard.[/quote]

Gates, Zuckerberg and Obama all went to top private schools. Obama got into Occidental and later transferred to Columbia. Bezos went to River Oaks school for middle school which again is in an expensive part of Houston. So they all came from privilege.  [/quote]

People need to distinguish between privilege like Larry Ellison's kid who received several hundred million of investment from Larry for Skydance...and Mark Zuckerberg who's dad was/is a dentist and had little to nothing to do with the creation or success of Facebook.

I don't think Mark Zuckerberg or really anyone believes Facebook would exist if he had decided to attend a SUNY school as an example.[/quote]
I think one has to be delusional to be from mark zuckerbergs generation and not think going to Philips Academy isn’t immense privilege. It had a lot more weight then than it does today, and he was guaranteed at minimum an upper middle class lifestyle as long as he was mediocre at a minimum. Most people do not have private boarding school safety nets.[/quote]

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