I think the thing being completely left out here is that when people "do things for one another" it's not out of charity but out of mutually beneficial exchange. For example:
Student is inspired by a great professor to create a new tech firm that completely kills it.
Obama says that student didn't create the tech firm, that everybody did. That the student was given the inspiration by the professor. But Obama forgets that the student paid tuition to talk to that professor and that the professors interests were not in charity but in profit. And if they weren't in profit they were for some sort of advertising. So the student who created the tech firm paid for this. If his inspiration was publicly available and the student was the only one who took the inspiration to create the tech firm then he truly was smarter than everybody else. So Either:
The student did indeed pay his way to this success
or
He was smarter than everybody else.
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