Of the ten richest women in the world - NONE earned it.
(media.kotakuinaction2.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (44)
sorted by:
But how many billionaires had children who went on to earn their own billions through work unrelated to the family business?
I know being born to wealthy parents makes you more likely to earn decent money, but to become a billionaire? Not sure about that.
It's far more feasible to become a billionaire when you start as a millionaire than it is to become a millionaire when you start from nothing.
Bill Gates' father was a rich Seattle attorney. That enabled him to go to a private prep school that was the only one in town with a computer, and be free to drop oit of Harvard and pursue his business dreams without having to worry about being homeless or starving to death. To be sure, someone of lesser talent might have ended up living in his parents basement, but he started with a huge leg up.
It's all about options. There are doors that are opened to you when you have successful parents, and when you go to the right schools, and when you know the right people that are not opened to everyone else.
There were 735 billionaires in the United States in 2022 compared to 25,000,000 millionaires so I'm not sure this is true.
But I could be missing something.