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I'm fascinated with how many of these guys suffered the death of a parent at a young age. I suppose nothing provides you with an all-encompassing motivation to
by marcusestes 16y ago
I'm fascinated with how many of these guys suffered the death of a parent at a young age. I suppose nothing provides you with an all-encompassing motivation to build security and wealth like being raised by a single lower middle class parent.
- mrshoe 16y agoThere's a pretty explicit selection bias here. They compiled a list of people who "started with nothing". Among the set of all billionaires, I doubt you would see a very high incidence of being raised by a widow(er).
- marcusestes 16y agoThere are 1,011 names on Forbes' Billionaires List. Of those, how many do you imagine were born poor? My bet is that this list represents a fairly large selection of billionaires who "came from nothing."
- dantheman 16y agoI believe the parent post was saying that, having one parent would more make you more likely to be poor. So when looking at the list of billionaires who are poor the majority would have one parent.
- nikcub 16y agoMuch higher than you think. Take the list of billionaires and all of those who are not from the US or Europe and who do not have 'Sultan' in their title likely started with nothing.