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Billionaires exist because they can code apps.
Gates coded Microsoft’s first BASIC interpreter

Larry/Sergey built v1 of Google

Zuck built v1 of Facebook

Dorsey built v1 of Twitter

etc etc etc
Houston built v1 of Dropbox
Camp built v1 of Uber
Murphy built v1 of Snapchat
etc

Of course, there's some poetic license. Not every tech billionaire codes v1 themselves. But they all have the ability to get a working app out. And that, it turns out, is harder than it looks!
The joke, for those w/o context…

- Millionaire politicians have been going around making broad statements like “billionaires should not exist”
- But they just demonstrated they couldn’t code an app that counts to ten
- Thus demonstrating why at least some billionaires exist 😉
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