MikeK
Gold Member
As simple as my questions are the fact that you are unwilling to answer them is what really is revealing in this exchange.Your questions are irrelevant except in revealing your mindset, which is "I'll never make that much but if I did I'd find it plenty."
My mindset where money is concerned is I will never be wealthy simply because I have no such motivation. I am quite content with the comforts of a middle class lifestyle in which I have everything I need and want for nothing. My leisure time has always been much too valuable to waste in the pursuit of money.
If you consider success to be the accumulation of money it becomes obvious that you've never been close enough to anyone who is truly wealthy but truly miserable. But you can take my word for it there are many who fit that description.Fortunately we dont make public policy based on the beliefs of ignorant working class people envious of others' success.
The microcomputer's time had come and Bill Gates was in the right place at the right time. If he were not in that position when that star crossed with his someone else would have been. As far as his phenomenal financial success is concerned, based on what I've read he is far more proficient at exploiting business opportunity than in developing technology.Why do you think Bill Gates is one of the richest men in America?
Based on what I've read about Gates' success it began with the rather underhanded means by which he acquired the rights to make proprietary use of DOS, which was created by someone else and served as the springboard for Microsoft. Gates' exploitative nature is manifest in the endless progression of Windows versions which we are continually forced to pay hundreds of dollars for when each new version contains nothing but some relatively minor revisions and upgrades, most of which are absolutely unnecessary.
Bill Gates is an extremely lucky, devious and greedy opportunist -- characteristics which are key ingredients for phenomenal success in contemporary America.