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One is not likely to get to the same place in life as that CEO by job-hopping as a software engineer.

One is not likely to get to the same place in life as that CEO. You can stop the sentence there. The rest of your statement makes you sound judgmental against job-hopping.

Capital distribution in the US is a Paretian/long tail distribution. It is statistically very unlikely for anyone, regardless of their actions, to get to the same place in life as that CEO if they are from anywhere in the bottom 90%.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1077681/thumbs/o-INCOME-DISTRIBUTI...

Fair. I had originally wrote "One will not get to the same place...", but wanted to modify it to allow for exceptional cases. Went too far modifying it.

I agree that nearly everybody is unlikely to reach the same place in life as that CEO. If that were not the case, truly we would be living in a utopia.

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