“Self made billionaires” is propaganda. No billionaire is self made. Their billions were leeched off all the workers who created their wealth.
It’s also about who you know not what you know. The opportunity to get wealthy is only given to those the older wealth approve of. All the biggest names in tech built their monopolies on VC dollars.
I would just like to hear the opinions of the two dumb cunts who downvoted this. Do they think billionaires are genius visionaries who saved us plebs from lives of mundane squalor?
Where can you see upvote/downvote count?
It usually depends on what app you’re using. Desktop and a couple apps display it by default or when hovered. Others might not show it at all because they’re built off reddit apps which doesn’t show it separated
You don’t fucking say.
It’s almost like switching from monarchism and aristocracy to oligarchism and capitalism didn’t really change much of anything. I’m very shocked.
Eat the rich.
I’ve been sharpening all my knives
So brave
You are irrelevant.
eAt tHe rICh
This but for real.
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'ol Zucky took a $100,000 loan from his father to found Facebook. Much self made, such from scratch.
There is absolutely truth to the saying “The best way to make a million dollars is to first spend 2 million dollars.” However, I think Zuckerberg is an exception more than a rule. That is, the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.
That’s still very impressive ngl, despite my sheer disgust towards him and Facebook.
100,000 to 1,000,000,000 is a massive jump.
Easy to make risky moves when you know that no matter what you won’t end up destitute
No, most new billionaires are hedge fund/private equity leeches that just suck money out of the economy.
Finally a study on this, nice. All those “no fucking shit” comments should be thankful someone actually proved this
Not a fan of him by any means, but I believe the Zucc managed to become a billionaire at 23 without inheriting all or most of it like a bunch of these new young billionaires.
Still built his wealth off the back of others like any other billionaire, but I believe he’s one of the more “self made” ones. Still couldn’t have done it without family connections and risk-free loans most of us couldn’t get, though.
Didn’t he go to Harvard? Its no like he started on the struggle bus like the majority of people.
He also went to Philips Exeter Academy beforehand.
Oh, most definitely.
I meant that he actually had to work for what he made, rather than getting it as an inheritance, but he still had insanely favorable circumstances to start with.
No one ever works their way to a billion dollars, even with a favorable start, they steal other people’s work to do it, but other than that, yeah, he didn’t inherit a billion dollars like everyone else. Which is why this list is about billionaires currently under 30.
I still think it takes more effort to coordinate the theft of others work etc to become a billionaire compared to simply inherently a billionaire dollars. But this doesn’t mean I morally value either.
Beats Notch. Notch would have been 34 when Microsoft bought Minecraft from him for MAX_UINT32 dollars. And other than expressing the wrong political views (but not especially throwing money at politics, mostly just tweets) he’s one of the less evil billionaires.
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Is this supposed to be surprising?
Except Taylor Swift?
I thought she came from a wealthy family that used their influence to give her a huge advantage entering the music industry.
Still, she has played her cards exceptionally well. But I don’t think you can claim being self made when you had advantages that 99.9% of your competitors didn’t have.
She’s like 33
34 to be specific - I only know because I’m several months older than her, and it’s always nice to have someone successful my age to compare myself to and feel worse about myself and how unsuccessful I am (I’m obviously joking a bit).
I am the same age as Natalie Portman, so I get it.
For real? I seriously thought she was like 25
She was. About eight years ago.
Whoa.
Wow what? I thought she’s something like 37 or 38
Vitalik Buterin also just turned 30 at the end of January.
They can cough it up or choke on the noose.
All current billionaires, people have made that amount before, they’re just older now.
I wonder how many poor people under 30 had their formerly middle class parents homes bought by the rich.
There used to be a saying “never sell the family farm”. I suspect this came from a similar period of massive transfer of wealth to the rich.
