Bill Gates was absolutely destroyed, on so many levels, in an AMA, today.
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Not everything is a conspiracy, most of the time it's just rich people jerking each other off.
This doesn't even make any sense. IBM's dominance was in mainframes at the time they picked up DOS, and IBM itself only dominated the PC market until Compaq.
Pretty sure rich people jerking each other off qualifies as a conspiracy. I hear all the time about how Bill Gates was just some regular nerdy middle class kid who built some computers in his garage and became the most successful richest person with computers and now is saving the world. Gates is a fraud, all the PR fluff about Gates is a fraud. Look in to it.
Everything you’ve said above is a fact.
To me "conspiracy" has to be engineered, if it's just rich people going to the same parties and being friends it's just a matter of being on that graph. I don't really hold it too much against them since I've done the same things (preferential treatment for people I know and trust) just on a much lower stratum.
This is also a double-edged sword, if I don't trust someone and know why not to, I'll at least give indicators to friends that there's issues with the person; a bad recommendation or referral reflects poorly on me.
The word conspiracy is misused and then abused as a weapon to dissuade people from discussions about uncomfortable subjects that have alot of questionable or non existant explanations surrounding them. The term is enough to turn most timid people off of a subject. I see it all the time "Oh thats a just a conspiracy theory, end of story". After years of this tactic being used as a fire extinguisher on a topic or thought thats lighting up, the term has been losing its value and is becoming a bad slight of hand magic trick that just adds more fuel to the fire.
I just think the simplest explanation is the easiest: upper crust computer nerd kid is both in the right place at the right time in terms of skills and has a mom that happens to be a C-level that gets him in the door at IBM as a vendor. This is just crony capitalism, no one planned it beyond any level of "Bill Gates likely comes from a long line of pretty good decision makers".
Everyone has crazy ideas, I certainly have my share. But when you're a top 10 richest ducks in the world nigga for like 3 decades you can make your crazy ideas happen.