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Fun Fact: the current secretary of education is a multi-billionaire because her family runs Amway.
by TomMckenny 7y ago
Fun Fact: the current secretary of education is a multi-billionaire because her family runs Amway.
- mikeyouse 7y agoSure pays to be at the top of that pyramid.
- lisper 7y ago"Fun" is not the adjective that leaps first to my mind to describe this fact.
- throwaway5752 7y agoAnd her brother founded Blackwater Security. He tried to broker a backchannel with Russia after the election (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel/2017/04/03/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black...)
- ZeroGravitas 7y agoTo be more accurate, she was already rich due to automotive patents and a company her dad ran. She married into the Amway stuff through choice rather than growing up in it. Which is in many ways worse.