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Originally Posted by kane
He is simply saying that if you are successful there were other people and outside influences that helped you get there whether you realize it or not. If you are a successful webmaster you took the initiative and had the drive to put in the hard work to get that success, but you sure as hell didn't invent the internet. You didn't create Google or Yahoo, or the other places that you are likely getting your traffic from. You didn't invent the computer and then figure out ways to improve it and mass produce it so that it could be affordable to the millions who now have them and use them to access your business. You didn't create HTML code or the software you use to build your site. Hell, you might not have even shot the content that is on your sites and I'm pretty confident you don't supply the millions with their ISP connections. These are all things you had nothing to do with, but they directly affect and influence your success and without them you have no business.
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And this is what people don't get.
Taking politics out of it... I have a lot of single friends who do not have kids, and they have issues with the fact their tax dollars go to local schools. But what they fail to understand is that their tax dollars now are educating the people now that will be taking care of the country twenty years from now.
We could stop paying taxes to schools now and just about the time we go to retire there won't be any power, because we failed to educate the next generation and there is no one left to run the power plants - or fix the roads, etc.