Not to mention how Kylie Jenner is far from the self-made billionaire some claim her to be
The moral of the story is that people shouldn’t beat themselves up for being poor because a lot of very successful people had financial help and support
Aidan told us that he has a decent-sized following and is used to his posts going moderately viral. “But I’m pleasantly surprised by how much of an impact this tweet in particular had.”
According to him, believing that certain famous billionaires are self-made when they might not be is harmful for a variety of reasons. “For one, even in the rare cases in which people from working-class backgrounds amass exorbitant wealth, it’s still not ‘self-made’ given that amassing wealth on that scale will always have come from ruthless exploitation of others.”
While Bezos may have started Amazon in his parents’ garage when he was 30, people tend to focus on this part, not the fact that his parents invested 245,573 dollars in Amazon in 1995, nor that Bezos worked in Wall Street before committing to Amazon.
Bloomberg found that if Bezos’ parents kept all of their holdings in the company, their shares would have been worth around 30 billion dollars in 2018.
As of now, it’s unclear how much of the stock Jackie and Mike Bezos still own. They could secretly be among the world’s wealthiest 30 people (possibly even ahead of Elon Musk at the time).
Bezos and others might be successful, talented, dedicated, and not afraid to take risks (nobody is trying to diminish their accomplishments or effort) but they’re not entirely self-made.
Aidan’s thread definitely got the internet’s attention: it got more than 489k likes, nearly 150k retweets, and started a discussion.
Some people were surprised to learn some of the things that Aidan shared on Twitter. Others fully agreed with his message. Meanwhile, some Twitter users questioned why people are getting upset at people becoming successful, even if they did use their parents’ money. To which some internet users responded that fake underdog stories lead to poor people being told it’s their own fault for not becoming rich.
Accumulation of capital is not communism. It’s some other form of economic structure. Help me out here. Owning capital is called....?
Calling the mainstream media "right-wing" IS communist. Help me out here, how far to the left do you have to be to consider the mainstream media right-wing?
Hint: it's pretty far left, i.e. communist.
It's provable that most people would not have squandered $250,000 from their parents. I don't mean in theory. I mean provable. The average American household barely has a total net worth of $100,000 including their home equity. So "most people" don't have $250,000 to loan for their kids to even try and squander. Which is of course the point of the post. Well off folks have a leg up over most people, and that advantage should be acknowledged rather than hidden.
i have great ideas and i am a genious. but unfortunately nobody gives me a quarter million to start. Are you willing to contribute, babe. I am open.
Since you misspelled "genius", I'm skeptical of your claim.
John Mason (Sean Connery/The Rock) said it best "Your "best! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and f@#k the prom queen."