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> Europe has a higher proportion of fortunes controlled by heirs, not innovators, than do the U.S. or Asia I wonder what they consider to be heirs? The differe
by TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
> Europe has a higher proportion of fortunes controlled by heirs, not innovators, than do the U.S. or Asia
I wonder what they consider to be heirs? The difference can be just one generation.
- hef19898 7y agoIt even gets murkier when you consider people like Susanne Klatten, one of the heirs of BMW. Definitely a heiress, but then she did pretty well with what she inherited. So, entrepreneur or heir? Or both?
- Scoundreller 7y agoMaybe there’s more than the English Wikipedia article about her, but it doesn’t show much more than continuing existing stakes.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoI wonder what they mean by innovators.
- djwhsbxh 7y agoPeople who make industry and society shifting products. Getting bought out by someone who takes your service to scale isn't the same.