Re:Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting...
by StudentStuff on Friday February 08, 2019 @10:20PM
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Bill Gates went to Lakeside School here in Seattle and grew up in a nice house along the shoreline in Sand Point (a rich neighborhood of Seattle). He is hardly self made, and comes from an upper crust Seattle family that could afford the finest education and residences in Seattle.
Had Bill Gates gone to Seattle Public Schools at the time, its doubtful that he would have gained similar contacts or become notable at such an early age.
Gates did not directly inherit vast wealth. But, most people’s parents don’t know the CEO of IBM back when it was the computer company.
That bottom 35% is a little doubious. Larry Ellison was put in that category, though he was adopted at a young age. Further, his adopted family had recently been wealthy which is a much better than average background for becoming rich.
Finally, the category they place Trump in vastly underplays the amount of direct family support he received. The initial gift was under 50 million, but was just the first of many. He would have become a billionaire simply putting the money given to him into the S&P 500.