> Steve Jobs: son of a mechanic/carpenter ... Sorry, no. Steve Jobs was an orphan. > Attended an expensive private college. Dropped out of Reed College. > R

> Steve Jobs: son of a mechanic/carpenter ... Sorry, no. Steve Jobs was an orphan. > Attended an expensive private college. Dropped out of Reed College. > Richard Branson: born the son of a barrister and grandson of a knighted member of the High Court. These are genetic references, not financial ones. Genetics isn't the issue under discussion. You managed to overlook the fact that none of the examples had inherited money at the time of their greatest success. Attending an exclusive school is certainly no assurance of later success, often the contrary, and can't be equated with the classic case of inheriting family money. > Being merely well-off to start with is also family money. That twists the earlier premise so far as to render it meaningless. And how can the orphan Steve Jobs be described as "well-off to start with"?