Verily I say unto thee, that Ian Hilliard spake thusly:
> amicus_curious wrote:
>>> http://www.technewsworld.com/story/57946.html#9658053938283903337
>>>
>>>
>>> The same story with Google. Bill Gates, on the other hand, just
>>> came from a very wealthy family and found corruption/deceit to be
>>> a powerful tool, not Linux.
>> Of course that must be the explanation. That is all it would take,
>> eh?
>
> Add to that a certain amount of luck, his mother's contacts and his
> father's ability to twist a contract so that the other party doesn't
> realize that they have been had, until it is too late.
As with most things in business, it's not what you know, but who. The
foundations of Corporatism is corruption.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| in wealth have virtually no effect on well-being ... This is worth
| knowing in case you have a choice between "X" and making more
| money, almost certainly "X" is what you should choose."
| - Barry Schwartz
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