I mean yeah if your family is important enough you can get a career off the ground with any number of crappy half-baked ideas You don't even have to have an idea at all, they'll just give you one
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It was ridiculous, *every single one* of the four original stars of GIRLS had a parent who was some kind of somebody
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I mean, kind of curious question though. What does that say about weird success stories like Wizard Book Lady? I get that her poverty was exaggerated for publicity but she also as I understand sold her idea nontraditionally, and lacked conventional connections
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Like she seems like she really did start with no upper class connections and worked her way to become one of the most terrible people on rainy fascism island, a true success story just like we were always told :P
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"Low-income students who scored in the top 5% in math were no more likely to become inventors than below-average math students from affluent families"https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/17/1003318/why-venture-capital-doesnt-build-the-things-we-really-need/ …
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"Meanwhile, if women, minorities, and children from low-income families were to invent at the same rate as white men from families with incomes in the top 20%, the rate of innovation in America would quadruple."
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Hot take: It was a highly rated show, though, that garnered HBO a lot of attention. Whoever greenlighted it was right! (Agree w what you're saying about privilege and access).
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I'm sure this is the same story behind both HHGTTG and Red Dwarf.
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Also Lena who? Haven't heard that name in a long time. Even unfunnny Jeff Dunham seems to get mentioned more (haha, unpack that
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