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Even a person born into wealth may occassionally be genuinely talented. Not every artist/author is a struggling youth living in a cardboard box.

There is also a load of trust fund babies that no one has ever heard about.

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Yeah, wealth can be a great boon for developing talent. It's annoying for the rest of us peasants, but talent is talent.... A rich kid may lack a hard-knock life, which is great fodder for writing. But, she or he may be privately tutored in, say, world literature from a young age and given 1-on-1 access to great minds.

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