Similar thing with Jeff Bezos. His mom was a single teenage mother who went to night school to graduate highschool. His bio dad bailed. His stepdad was a young immigrant. They gave him $300,000 to start Amazon, but they worked their way up to the point where they could do it.
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rckclmbr@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Lol Zucks dad was a dentist, and his mom was a psychiatrist. Yes they were more wealthy than a majority of Americans, but I wouldn’t call them an inaccessible “wealthy” like Musk or Trump. They were living a comfortable middle class lifestyle.
Eylrid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
phillaholic@lemm.ee 7 months ago
How did a Single mother who had to get her GED have the equivalent of $620,000?
Mamertine@lemmy.world 7 months ago
cnbc.com/…/mark-zuckerbergs-dad-offered-him-colle…
His parents offered to buy him a business so he could just collect a check instead of going to Harvard.
I’m the same age as him and I came from a well to do upper middle class background. My parents could not afford to buy me a million dollar business for me to run. I had fairly rich friends. None of their parents made them offers like that.
MathiasTCK@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Zuck leveraged his college connections pretty hard
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Both those jobs require PHDs, something only 2% of Americans ever get. It would be inaccurate to claim that there’s only a 1% chance of both your parents being doctors, but it is more exclusive than 1 doctor. They were definitely millionaires by the time he was an adult, and could probably afford excellent education for him since birth. The key thing is that closer you start to the bottom, the harder it is to become ultra wealthy.
rckclmbr@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I agree with your last sentence. But I was just pointing out that it’s a far cry for Zucks situation (good education, stable home) vs Trumps (here’s hundreds of millions of dollars, do whatever you want)