<p>berry, </p>
<p>I have said time and time again that not having a top pedigree isn’t a deterministic factor, but that many industries will be effectively off limits without one and a steep career trajectory will be easier to obtain with one. </p>
<p>The best way to make money is always to have your own company, but that’s not the argument I am making. </p>
<p>Furthermore, I did not equate professional success with money, but made an argument for how they are highly correlated. As I said before, you continue to argue against a straw man, and not the actual argument I am making. I simply said, as one point in my argument, that prestige and income can be viewed as a proxy for professional success. </p>
<p>Steve Jobs may have had a goal just to make a great product, or change the world through the personal computer, but notice how he got rich doing it even if that wasn’t his goal? THAT’s the point I’m making …</p>