2026-05-08 17:48 UTC
@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social That's 900 billionaires, not 900,000...
Also, according to that article, their has been a massive uptick in "self made" billionaires.
I have to ask- how do Fortune define "self made"?
Someone whose parents worked minimum wage jobs to put food on the table, who got a scholarship to a mid tier college and worked their way up?
Or someone ehose only qualification for a course at a top tier college was Daddy's bulging cheque book, whose parents funded their first 3 companies that never did anything or made any money, and inherited 7 or 8 figures?
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@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social 2026-05-08 17:57
@stuartb@social.teamb.space Thanks for catching that. I've updated the post. Yes, "self-made" is generally used as "American Dream" propaganda. They almost always have some, if not lots, of advantages that the rest of us don't