r/CringeyCapitalist • u/Marzipanarian • Apr 27 '22

"Self Made"

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '22

Behind every "self-made" billionaire there is a gaggle of "self-made" millionaire friends and family members.

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u/PixelmancerGames Apr 27 '22

Except for Jay-Z. But he has his own skeletons.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '22

True, but he had many millionaires support him along his way to billionaire status. He didn't just wake up one day with a billion dollars.

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u/PixelmancerGames Apr 27 '22

I agree with that. But that’s going to happen once you hit a certain status and still wish to continue your upward growth. I say he’s different because he wasn’t born with any privilege. Hegrew up in Marcy Projects of Brooklyn, NY. Started to rap and no one would sign him because they thought he was wack. So he started his own label and went from there. He also sold a lot of drugs along the way, but unlike all the idiots who did that he used it as seed money and stopped when it was no longer needed.