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The title claims "behind every self-made millionaire", then the article subtitle claims "behind most self-made millionaires", then the article body just points at a grand total of 4 human beings that are millionaires that had rich fathers, as proof that most/every self-made millionaire had a rich father. The article is nothing but class-warfare propaganda.

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You can find a list of billionaires and then just find their associated Wikipedia articles. From a glance at the top 10, only Gautam Adani seemed to have been somewhat middle class instead of upper class starting out. But feel free to continue going down the list, maybe you'll see a trend that's good enough for you.

Gatekeeping. Modern elites do this a lot where they publically promote the opposite of what made them successful.

The children of millionaire lawyers and doctors also make a lot of noise on social media about "millionaires being the new middle class" and why we should only eat Zuckerberg and Bezos but leave out their wealthy parents.

Ok let us go down Forbes 2022 billionaires list

Musk - father owned diamond mines

Bezos - alluded to in article - big loan from parents

Arnault - father owned Ferret-Savinel

Gates - born with million dollar trust fund, grandfather ran bank, mother on board with IBM's Opel etc.

Buffett - grandfather owned chain of stores, father a congressman

The claim was millionaire, not billionaire. Gotta keep going.

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