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Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce... by daliusd on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:05AM (#17346167)
You have very low margin for being called "rich" in that case. Some of the top richest people were born in quite average Westerners family.

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#Early_life_and_educ...

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Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce... by icsllaf on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:43AM (#17346496)
Not to compare what average lives are but

>He accepted an estimated 300,000 from his parents and invested in Amazon

This is the exact difference between someone who works and someone who is handed money to do work. I don't know if Amazon would be alive without this transaction, but it sure helped that Bezos was given 300k by his parents.

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