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Bezos had to start off somewhere.

Just a small loan of a quarter million dollars from his parents to bail out his failing company, which one would be hard-pressed to imagine he would have even had that much success in founding if not for his wealthy parents supporting his upbringing as they did.

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This is ironically a poor sales pitch, unless you believe that networking, marketing, and familial wealth should be what orders society.

And I never said that 250k was all they had, and in fact being able to throw that much money at something is going to be less and less of a concern the more money you have, though I don’t think his family was “poor as hell” to start with. Unfortunately for this point, their finances at the time are not publicized that I can find.

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He started out with a small loan of $250,000 from his parents, in 90s $s if memory serves.

You’re just a aren’t you? Lazy workers could be billionaires if they just tried

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250k is a lot of money. It was more even more money in the 90s. Its an exceptionally large amount of money to recieve for free straight from your parents.

People don’t become billionaires from working. They become billionaires by taking profit from the surplus value of other peoples work.

But you believe in a propagandized version of capitaliam where everyone could equally become a billionaire, its a meritocracy, you’re all jealous and lazy of our deserving overlords

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