<story><title>Apple to contribute to U.S. teen&apos;s education for spotting FaceTime bug</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-patch/apple-to-contribute-to-u-s-teens-education-for-spotting-facetime-bug-idUSKCN1PW2E0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zavi</author><text>Most people on US Forbes top 500 came from poverty and &amp;#x2F; or other disadvantage.</text></item><item><author>nerdponx</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :))&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why kid? This is the way of the world.</text></item><item><author>ppeetteerr</author><text>&amp;gt; it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily &amp;quot;bless&amp;quot; random people like a deity or something.&lt;p&gt;Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :))&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I also can&amp;#x27;t help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.&lt;p&gt;It may be but so what? They could have done nothing, but they didn&amp;#x27;t. Good on them for doing this.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>You know, I&amp;#x27;m happy on some level for that individual.  It seems like a great stroke of fortune.  On another level, it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily &amp;quot;bless&amp;quot; random people like a deity or something.  I also can&amp;#x27;t help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peeters</author><text>Seemed like a dubious claim, so tried to find a source and found this old article:&lt;p&gt;Did the Forbes 400 Billionaires Really &amp;#x27;Build That&amp;#x27;?
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;49167533&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;49167533&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Trimming a lot:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;United for a Fair Economy breaks down the Forbes list using a baseball analogy. It says&lt;p&gt;- 35 percent of the list was born in the “batter’s box,” with a lower-middle class or middle-class background...&lt;p&gt;- 22 percent of the list were born on first base: they came from a comfortable but not rich background and might have received some start-up capital from a family member.&lt;p&gt;- 11.5 percent were born on second base, the report says. Second base is defined as people who inherited a medium sized company or more than $1 million or got “substantial” start-up capital from a business or family member.&lt;p&gt;- 7 percent were born on third base, inheriting more than $50 million in wealth or a big company. The report includes Charles Koch and Charles Butt on third base.&lt;p&gt;- 21 percent were born on home plate, inheriting enough money to make the list.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So less than 35 percent would be coming from poverty, if this study is to be believed.  This is for the 400 billionaires list though.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple to contribute to U.S. teen&apos;s education for spotting FaceTime bug</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-patch/apple-to-contribute-to-u-s-teens-education-for-spotting-facetime-bug-idUSKCN1PW2E0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zavi</author><text>Most people on US Forbes top 500 came from poverty and &amp;#x2F; or other disadvantage.</text></item><item><author>nerdponx</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :))&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why kid? This is the way of the world.</text></item><item><author>ppeetteerr</author><text>&amp;gt; it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily &amp;quot;bless&amp;quot; random people like a deity or something.&lt;p&gt;Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :))&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I also can&amp;#x27;t help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.&lt;p&gt;It may be but so what? They could have done nothing, but they didn&amp;#x27;t. Good on them for doing this.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>You know, I&amp;#x27;m happy on some level for that individual.  It seems like a great stroke of fortune.  On another level, it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily &amp;quot;bless&amp;quot; random people like a deity or something.  I also can&amp;#x27;t help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shrimp_emoji</author><text>This statement is saved by the &amp;quot;and &amp;#x2F; or other disadvantage&amp;quot; because that includes the subconscious guilt that they ultimately owe all of their accomplishments to their wealthy parents, which is indeed a disadvantage that I struggle with daily. :&amp;#x27;c</text></comment>