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[some person] had a TON of opportunity and privilege funneled to him from his parents.

What percentage of those persons became billionaires? Is it less than 0.1%?

(What percentage of them die broke? I bet greater than 1%)



No one is saying Bill Gates didn't earn his success. But we can't deny that having access to certain levels of privlege makes success much more probably than for those without those advantages.

With Bill Gates' upbringing, it is quite unlikely he would have struggled with housing insecurity.




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