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by bilbo0s 5227 days ago
That about covers it.

But his point is still valid...tech people could easily have gone to med school. If they had...they would have had a more solid chance at accumulating that USD10Million than working startup after startup.
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rayiner 5227 days ago
> tech people could easily have gone to med school.

Some, but mostly not. The non-tech professions that offer high pay (medicine, law, banking) all have very different barriers to entry than tech. There are a lot of folks who made a ton of money in tech who didn't have the 4.0 + ridiculous extracurriculars to get into med school, or the Ivy-league background to get into a bank. I think those barriers make those professions less meritocratic than tech, don't get me wrong, but they are what they are.

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defen 5227 days ago
Let's not forget personality / human factors though - I'm fairly certain I could have been a doctor or lawyer (even considered being a lawyer at one time and got a 178 on the LSAT) but I'm just not cut out for those fields. I'm too squeamish to be a doctor and I don't have the interpersonal / political skills to be a really successful lawyer. So tech it is...
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