The list includes people like Bill gates, whose parents, while not Billionaires, were reasonably wealthy, Mark Zuckerman grew up in a very affluent suburb of NY, his father was a dentist and his mother was a Psychiatrist. I kinda think that they were pretty wealthy too.
So even though “self-made” is supposed to imply a kind of “rags to riches” vibe, what we have is more along the lines of “riches to a huge amount of riches”.
Yeah, sure, “up-by-the-bootstraps”.
Of course, according to “Debut” ALL billionaires a “self made”. Every person mentioned by name from their list grew up in an affluent or wealthier family, but if their parents weren’t already billionaires, then that makes them “self made”. I guess that the myth that “anybody can be a billionaire, they just have to work hard (and attend the “right” college, evidently)”.
I am not at all surprised that the most common school attended by wealthy kids who them became billionaires was Harvard. There is no better college at making the rich richer than Harvard.
“Self-made”. They keep using that term, but I don’t think it means what they think it means.