Yeah no shit. Because it’s essentially impossible to acquire that much wealth in that short a period of time. Even the number of millionaires under 30 that didn’t inherit their wealth is tiny.
Or they got incredibly lucky and happened to be in just the right place at the right time to have a ridiculously successful business. See E.G. Bill Gates who was pretty middle of the road at just about everything, but lucked into being at just the right place at the right time and managed to be just cunning enough in his business deals. Lots of other far more talented and far smarter people never even got a fraction of the success he did, but he was just super lucky. That’s pretty much how it always goes though.
The biggest lie the US propagates is that wealth is correlated to talent, effort, or both. It isn’t, it’s about 90% luck, 8% ruthlessness, and 2% effort (and that 2% doesn’t even apply to those that inherit their wealth).
Yeah no shit. Because it’s essentially impossible to acquire that much wealth in that short a period of time. Even the number of millionaires under 30 that didn’t inherit their wealth is tiny.
And those millionaires typically won some sort of fame “lottery” (which has its own issues) like Pop Stars or something.
Or they got incredibly lucky and happened to be in just the right place at the right time to have a ridiculously successful business. See E.G. Bill Gates who was pretty middle of the road at just about everything, but lucked into being at just the right place at the right time and managed to be just cunning enough in his business deals. Lots of other far more talented and far smarter people never even got a fraction of the success he did, but he was just super lucky. That’s pretty much how it always goes though.
The biggest lie the US propagates is that wealth is correlated to talent, effort, or both. It isn’t, it’s about 90% luck, 8% ruthlessness, and 2% effort (and that 2% doesn’t even apply to those that inherit their wealth).