Whether they are self-made or not is not the right question to ask, it's whether their parents were rich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_

Whether they are self-made or not is not the right question to ask, it's whether their parents were rich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the_United_States#Intergenerational_mobility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the... Even if most millionaires are self-made, many of them are still born to affluent parents that gave them the opportunities to get there.