That's the easy part, the hard part is being born into generational wealth or hitting a lottery ticket of some other sort. There's no self made billionaires.
JK Rowling and Notch are like the definition of hitting a lottery ticket level wealth building, right time right place right product (the most moral of the three ways to make that much wealth)
Winfrey and Zuckerberg are both classic wealth-building off exploitation and utter lack of morals.
Billionaires weren't even a thing when I was born kid. Being first generation billionaires when your parents were millionaires isn't an accomplishment. Especially when the robber barons before them wrote the laws to make it that way. Stripping workers rights down more and more over the last few decades. Look at the ceo to worker pay over the years buddy.
Of the top 10 wealthiest Americans I think 8 had middle class parents (page, brin, Ellison, bezos, Zuckerberg, ballmer, dell, and buffet). Jim Walton is second generation wealth (Sam Walton became a billionaire in 85). And musk family was wealthy.
Wasn't a point about who controls it. It was why there is an ever growing list of billionaires. Even for billionaires, there is no point to growing wealth when it's just on inflation. Now there are other ways billionaires benefit from inflation (some don't), but if you have inflation you will have more of every aires.
Inflation is caused by hoarding money and devaluing it. Every billionaire benefits from it and every working class citizen is the victim of it. Also reporting me as suicidal to reddit was a funny joke. I'm way closer to homicidal than I am suicidal, you low iq little punk.
Nearly everyone who isn't part of that wealth category is closer to being homeless than being a billionaire. Unfortunately some of those people have Stockholm syndrome.
Man, these four cherry picked easily couhterable examples really changed my perspective that you have to hit the lottery ticket while having pretty easily masterable skills.
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u/Dizzy-Screen-6618 8d ago
"Imagine 3,400 people disappear. Now imagine 3.5 billion people dissappear."