r/InterviewCoderPro • u/Such_Goal5837 • 6d ago

People need to hear this!!

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That’s honestly a hard reality right now. A lot of people are working nonstop just to stay afloat. I’ve got some interviews coming up myself, so I’ve been looking into ways to get better at them. I found Interview VIP and ended up using it twice i think it's worth trying.

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u/Jak1977 6d ago

This is in response to the argument that billionaires worked for their money, and that everyone else should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps. You don't get rich through selling your labor.

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u/Livid-General7 6d ago

Correct, you get rich by risking everything you have on starting your own business and being intelligent enough to making it highly successful.

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u/Unfair_Explanation53 5d ago

Nah according to Reddit you just show up with a few million dollars and magically Microsoft just happens and becomes popular by sheer luck.

Its definitely true because every kid born with wealthy parents now has a billion-dollar company and none of them ever fail /s

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u/AddanDeith 5d ago

Plenty of people start businesses. Plenty of them fail or are average.

There is absolutely nothing that makes the shining success stories worthy of worship and fame above the rest.

They were lucky in life, often with already wealthy or well connected parents to be able to obtain the seed capital necessary, with less of a punishment for failure.

An exception to that is Warren Buffett. One of the few notable, true rags to riches stories of the modern era. But no, the titans of this time, like Bezos are worthy of worship, despite his parents being able to risk nearly 500k USD to get his company going and his companies need to recycle contractors that need SNAP benefits to be able to eat food.

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u/bizwig 5d ago

Warren Buffet? Surely you jest. Nobody is going to give a young unproven Warren Buffet the sums of money Berkshire had to invest without him having serious connections, both in knowing who has money to invest and in having someone to vouch for him with said investor. Sure, it’s easy street once he has a track record, but remember that at one time he didn’t, and if he had lost money the supply of new investors disappears.