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"Mom sat on the same board as the CEO of IBM and convinced him to take a risk on her son's new company" Gates
"Started Amazon with $300,000 in seed capital from his parents and more from some rich friends" Bezos
"The son of a powerful congressman who owned an investment company" Buffett
"Dad owned an emerald mine in apartheid South Africa" Musk
I suspect within the $Billionaire population, the nouveau riche are a minority. Tiger Woods, & Taylor Swift come to mind.
Clearly $wealth distribution through our society may not seem to be utilitarian. Anyone got a better method?