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Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates. Behind Every Self-Made Millionaire is a Father with Money
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this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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There’s always an exception to the rule.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schulz grew up in a Brooklyn Housing project, George Soros survived the holocaust and worked waiting tables, David Murdock of Dole Foods was homeless. There’s tons of examples.
Here’s a fun article that ranks the whole Fortune 400 list. 80% of them inherited their wealth or at least grew up middle class.
Jeff Bezos actually scores high on the list because his Mom had him when he was 17, he flipped burgers in high school and by and large did not grow up rich.
His mother had him when he was 17?
That must have hurt.
Now how many are utter psychopaths (or "just" people without empathy)?
They're an evil bunch and that's about it IMO. Don't kill them or anything but being able to have already a Billion dollars is just breaking our social contract, so tax that away from them. They can argue who's got 56 millions instead of 56 billions, for them it will be the same game.
A contract requires at least 2 party consent. A "social contract" is more like a ransom.
Well if we decide we don't accept the contract then their money is worthless so...
Bezos may have grown up poor, but his parents did finance Amazon to the tune of $250k which is closer to half a million now.
He still effectively inherited the capital to start a business. My parents could never just invest half a million in a business I would want to start.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/how-jeff-bezos-got-his-parents-to-invest-in-amazon--turning-them-into.html
It's very fascinating that someone can grow up in abject poverty, gain a tremendous amount of power over their lifetime, and decide to make it their life's work to push down as many other people into abject poverty as possible.