Every billionaire under the age of 30 inherited their fortune, new report finds
Every billionaire under the age of 30 inherited their fortune, new report finds
Welcome to the age of ultra nepo babies.
Yeah no shit. Because it's essentially impossible to acquire that much wealth in that short a period of time. Even the number of millionaires under 30 that didn't inherit their wealth is tiny.
And those millionaires typically won some sort of fame "lottery" (which has its own issues) like Pop Stars or something.
Or they got incredibly lucky and happened to be in just the right place at the right time to have a ridiculously successful business. See E.G. Bill Gates who was pretty middle of the road at just about everything, but lucked into being at just the right place at the right time and managed to be just cunning enough in his business deals. Lots of other far more talented and far smarter people never even got a fraction of the success he did, but he was just super lucky. That's pretty much how it always goes though.
The biggest lie the US propagates is that wealth is correlated to talent, effort, or both. It isn't, it's about 90% luck, 8% ruthlessness, and 2% effort (and that 2% doesn't even apply to those that inherit their wealth).
Kids these days are lazy shits. All you have to do to earn $1,000,000,000 by 30 is drop out of school at 15 and work full time 40 hrs/wk with no vacation days. It's tough, but it's possible.
Oh forgot one part: hourly pay needs to average out to $32,051/hr and have exactly zero expenses for 15 years.
No shit. And 99% of all older billionaires got substantial money from family as well.
Maybe we should get rid of trusts over a certain dollar amount.
Nah, just tax them to hell.
I think that's what they meant. Anything over a certain amount should go to the state.
Nah just get rid of them and the whole capitalist garbage. We’ve given it a try and it’s clearly a failed experiment.
Anytime someone worth over 100m dies, their wealth is evenly distribtluted to all citizens
The crazy part is you could say everything after 100m gets distributed, their family still has $100m in the bank, but that wouldn't be good enough, gotta keep it all because they "earned it," whatever that means.
I personally am okay with wealth. I think millionaires are fine, especially now that everything is expensive. I want to see lines drawn at 10m, and 100m. There should be no b.
For serious, if an individual can’t get by on $10m (a number I pulled out of thin air) they don’t have what it takes to be in the world.
1st. Pass a law separating company ownership from stock ownership.
2nd. 100% tax on anything over one million dollars per inheritor. With some exemptions, such as the family home.
Did anybody think otherwise? 30 years is not enough time to become a billionaire from scratch.
Well no shit... If you're 30 years old and you EARNED, legit EARNED a billion dollars, you would have to have made $1,056.99 EVERY SECOND of your entire life from birth to 30.
I don't think your math is correct. There are 946,728,000 seconds in 30 years. That would mean they made just over a dollar per second, which is still pretty insane.
I think there is confusion over the long- and short scale naming system for numbers.
Long Billion: 1012
Short Billion: 109
My math may be off as I am completely high on drugs. :) Long story.
That, and a billion dollars is not earned unless you count your money managers earning their own pay by investing your money well.
They just pulled themselves up by their bootstraps while still in the womb.
They just pulled themselves up by their bootstraps while still in the womb.
Okay, this one made me laugh. Well done.
Right. Because it is literally impossible to earn that much money legally by the time you’re 30.
Hell I’d wager that most of the time it takes more than a single lifetime to accumulate that wealth and that’s not including the lifetimes of all the workers that are ruthlessly exploited in the process.
Didn't we already do this one?
Some people dont know how many millions are in a billion. .. and it shows!
Let’s disinherit them
Bullshit. They can only say this because the guy who invented Ethereum just turned 30, and there are probably all sorts of other Crypto nerds who are worth that much but we'll never know it.