Yup. Just like nobody “earns” billions of dollars. Noam taught me that.

It really didn’t help him at all that his mom was friends with executives at IBM. Big strong man did it all by himself.

Kind of a boomer take. Yeah of course if you can’t do the job, then you shouldn’t be hired for it. But the current job environment often wants 3-5 year’s experience for entry level positions that are mostly learned in the fly anyways.