{"id":141199,"date":"2022-09-24T18:57:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T16:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=141199"},"modified":"2022-09-24T18:57:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T16:57:58","slug":"self-made-billionaires-are-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=141199","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Self-made&#8221; billionaires are a myth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elon Musk came from a family that owned an emerald mine in Apartheid South Africa.<br><br>Bill Gates\u2019 mom helped Microsoft get a deal with IBM.<br><br>Jeff Bezos\u2019 garage-based start was funded by a quarter-million dollar investment from his parents.<br><br>\u201cSelf-made billionaires\u201d are a myth. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qSpM9Zu24d\">pic.twitter.com\/qSpM9Zu24d<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Robert Reich (@RBReich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBReich\/status\/1572299871364976641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>oh so this is why the rest of us are so poor! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>oh so this is why the rest of us are so poor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","category-sounds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141200,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141199\/revisions\/141200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}