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Where wealth come from. In Europe mostly inheritance. (lemmy.world)

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From the financial times. In Europe how billionaires gain their wealth? Mostly mom and dad.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The fact that they lumped all possible sources of income into "good" "bad" or "inherited" makes me question the validity of the entire study

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Bad sectors are polluting and open to possible corruption. Good sectors are manufacturing and technology (neither of which are known for pollution or possible corruption, of course).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its a Hollywood classic. The Good, the Bad and the Inherited.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Actually that is an Italian movie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank god especially German inheritance does not come from any sort of families working with fascists. It would be just awful, if say BMW had any family connection with Porsche or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

AFAIK BMW has no connections to Porsche, they achieved this garbage "all on their own". You're probably thinking of VW.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now I'm going to pretend I am surprised that many wealthy people just have wealthy parents and actually aren't the "self-made men" they love to paint themselves as.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

All you need is a vision, ambition and a few million starting capital.