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but I think stealing so much was his own doing

You can think about it in that way if you want. People like Putin are not the kind of character that gets used to peddle “rags-to-riches” billionaire fallacies in the west.

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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Billionaire isn’t a good term, it’s an insult and tells of a flawed society

Self-made means they are the criminal

Inherited means their relatives were criminals

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- masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Self-made means they are the criminal
  
  This is all true… but this isn’t what we are really talking about here. What we are really talking about here is the specific propaganda used to explain away a certain type of billionaire - ie, the (supposedly) “self-made” ones like Musk, Gates and Bezos. Somebody like Putin, for instance, has an entirely different propaganda surrounding him - ie, he’s not the darling of neoliberal “entrepreneurism” narratives like Musk, Gates or Bezos is.
  
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