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the title of the article is "Twenty Billionaires Who Started with Nothing" given that this is just a collection of photos and facts, how is this piece bullshit

• Retric 16y ago
  Started with: While most of the world's richest people earned their money, some had farther to climb. Neither Bill Gates nor Warren Buffett inherited wealth, <- that's wrong, buffet had a significant trust fund from dead relatives. Even most of the world's richest people earned their money is somewhat debatable, years of compound interest + a solid nest egg helped many billionaires along. And plenty of them benefited from more from less than ethical behavior and or luck than hard work. PS: If you want to look for patterns look a little closer to the bell curve. Start talking about 1 person out of 6 million and patterns are next to meaningless.
  • David 16y ago
    You'll note that neither Bill Gates nor Warren Buffet is among the 20. That particular statement may be wrong -- but it's actually unrelated to the thrust of the article. In fact with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet the author was giving examples of people who did not start with nothing. (The rest of the sentence you half-quoted: "but they were raised in affluent homes so they didn't have to worry about keeping their families fed.")
• _delirium 16y ago
  The title and list are fine, but the full article starts with the following phrase, which clearly has a political agenda: Anyone who doubts that America is the land of opportunity just needs to...