Gates Musk and Jobs all came from rich families and were able to work on what they wanted to work on.
The people going for prestigious institutions may actually need a job and and are optimizing for the best possible outcome.
The people going for prestigious institutions may actually need a job and and are optimizing for the best possible outcome.
The comparison in this context was that Queen's has a reputation for attracting status-seeking people banking on a management consulting career path.
Doesn't that mean you should be the one checking?
In America, there's the whole mythos of the rags-to-riches American dream. Some people whose story is really riches-to-more-riches present their success as the former.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-dad-tells-bi-abou...
I know the word "privilege" is anathema here, but it applies, even if neither his biological nor adoptive parents were necessarily rolling in dough.
He had a wonder years middle class life.
>He had a wonder years middle class life.
In the middle of the tech revolution's ground zero. In fact, being on a lower rung of the upper-middle class ladder might have been protective, in that he had access, but not too much access. In other words, enough resources (that most Americans of the time did not have) to get off the ground, without being tracked into less risky, more conventional, still lucrative work.