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Those 13 people I listed represent 13 out of the top 50 richest people in the US. Not cherry picked anecdotes. They represent 25% of the top 50 wealthiest Americans.

I'm not arguing about social mobility amongst the bottom quartile or the top 1% or anything else. I am refuting your claim that the all of the "super rich" inherited their wealth.

You said this: >The far majority of the superrich inherited their wealth.

When I provided statistics that showed only 31% of billionaires inherited their wealth. You said this:

>It's bullshit. They were born into connected families and simply built on the advantages they already had.

You stated a fact without evidence, I provided evidence to refute your claim (also why do you care about evidence--you said earlier this isn't Nature).

At least 25% of the 50 richest Americans started out with no fortune or family connections whatsoever.

Even more of them were only upper middle class, but I didn't include them.



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