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Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 1 year ago
There’s some who came from nothing back in the day, ex: Andrew Carnegie. But times are different now I guess.
Even then, got a good amount of his initial wealth by just investing in other people’s companies
Hardly self made when worker exploitation was the norm at that time. He cane from a time when striking workers were literally bombed by the US military or just shot down in the street like disobedient dogs.
Not self made.
The one recent exception I can think of is Notch, but that was more luck than anything else.
Wasn’t his idea just a closed source version of InfaMiner?
The idea of voxel games was old by the time either came around, Notch just made his more fun.
the_q@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hmm seems as though he was born “poor” by a standard set now, but his father moved up in his industry pretty well and he had political affiliations in his family. “Self-made” isn’t a real thing.
Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 1 year ago
Where you getting that info from his father?