• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Not a fan of him by any means, but I believe the Zucc managed to become a billionaire at 23 without inheriting all or most of it like a bunch of these new young billionaires.

    Still built his wealth off the back of others like any other billionaire, but I believe he’s one of the more “self made” ones. Still couldn’t have done it without family connections and risk-free loans most of us couldn’t get, though.

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      7 months ago

      Beats Notch. Notch would have been 34 when Microsoft bought Minecraft from him for MAX_UINT32 dollars. And other than expressing the wrong political views (but not especially throwing money at politics, mostly just tweets) he’s one of the less evil billionaires.

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        7 months ago

        Oh, most definitely.

        I meant that he actually had to work for what he made, rather than getting it as an inheritance, but he still had insanely favorable circumstances to start with.

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          7 months ago

          No one ever works their way to a billion dollars, even with a favorable start, they steal other people’s work to do it, but other than that, yeah, he didn’t inherit a billion dollars like everyone else. Which is why this list is about billionaires currently under 30.

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            I still think it takes more effort to coordinate the theft of others work etc to become a billionaire compared to simply inherently a billionaire dollars. But this doesn’t mean I morally value either.