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There are four grid squares here, and you're ignoring two, and insisting that they are not important to consider.

here are the variables: father is a congressman (yes/no) took good advantage of opportunities (yes/no)

to combine them we have: yes/yes, yes/no, no/yes, no/no.

so you are saying that it didn't matter that his father was a congressman because he took advantage of his opportunities. But imagine a warren buffet who didn't have a well positioned family, and didn't have the opportunities he had- Still a wiley person- our no/yes. Where is he on the forbes 400?

Warren Buffet is not exactly a rags to riches story. It's more of a riches to unimaginable riches story.



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