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The key here is you were able to snag influence from your Dad. Luckily he was bright enough to see the potential and was resourceful which spawned your interest.

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I was just thinking some more about this on the same line. If you want to call that privileged, you know, I'm open to that. In fact I'd say arguably this is "more privileged" that merely being rich, which is sometimes oversold.

It's just that I don't feel like I can apologize for this or feel bad. It isn't in anybody's best interest for me to try to pretend this was somehow bad.

I wouldn't expect even the privileged to apologize. It's awesome that some people were able to shake up the world of computers sooner, otherwise, we wouldn't have what we have. It's people taking advantage of what they can get that ends up producing some great stuff. So I'm a little late to the party? Doesn't mean the party isn't going to be awesome in my book!

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