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Um, Steve Jobs, Andrew Carnegie.
"Scumbag Eugine Nier - responds to a statistical generalization with 2 famous examples."
I agree that this is wrong.
Even though this is obviously a joke, with an over the top reference to popular memes, it still seems counterproductive for building a strong community.
Turned out true though.
What statistics? All I see is an assertion.
That captains of industry are from wealthy families? It's certainly consistent with everything I've read about the heritability of wealth and it's easy enough to supply other famous examples (eg. Bill Gates III).