• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Yeah, unfortunately, at least since the 80s, a lot of goofy narratives about how Steve Jobs or Bill Gates were “just like you” (meaning the random Galt’s Gulch engineer) and with a little pluck and a lot of coding, they made billions. Rinse and repeat this with lots and lots of new characters heading up new companies…

    Um, neither of them made that money as engineers…they might have started out doing some related work, but they quickly turned to exploiting other engineers to make the real money.