It's Very Stupid #2: The Golden Card
Trump's plan to raise funds from fleeing billionaires doesn't account for how they became billionaires
I think you have to be somewhat smart if you want to become a multimillionaire or billionaire. It mostly takes luck, but if you’re a person who increased their net worth exponentially over your career, it shows that you have your wits about you and know how to deftly navigate the business world. For as idiotic as so much of Elon Musk’s agenda seems to be, he became the richest man in the world by being a genius at marketing himself and his companies, even if he himself wasn't doing any of the engineering. Even being born into great wealth means that you will most likely have a level of awareness thrust upon you, usually in the form of attending some kind of elite university. My favorite example of how elite education levels have been streamlined is that the current claimant to House Bonaparte is a former Blackrock private equity goon educated at Harvard Business School who now has his own investment firm.
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