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I hear you, I do, but here's another perspective: Jobs without Wozniak wound up being California's third-best Mercedes salesman.

And neither of them would've mattered a jot if they were born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or if they were medieval peasants, or if Jobs hadn't been adopted, or or or ...

Luck is enormously influential. There thousands of Jobsalikes per Jobs. Necessity isn't sufficiency.




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