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by daniel65464 1148 days ago
I learned this when I read Outliers by Malcom Gladwell. He talks about why the richest people in history all were born around the same time. This is a direct quote " On a list of the 75 richest people in history, which includes names from Cleopatra to Warren Buffet, an astounding fourteen Americans appear, all of them were born within nine years of each other." "Many familiar names appear on the list, like Andrew Carnegie (born in 1835), J. P. Morgan (born in 1837), and John D. Rockefeller (born in 1839)" He also talks about the tech people such as: Steve Jobs: 1955, Bill Gates: 1955...