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Even if your family had tens of millions of dollars available while you were growing up, you’re many orders of magnitude closer to a minimum wage worker than to any billionaire.

If you grew up with millions of dollars, your existence is very different from people making minimum wage because you can live comfortably without much stress or need to burn yourself out working. But you and the minimum wage worker both have effectively no political power, while the few thousand billionaires in the world are really running the show - makes no difference what sort of lifestyles those billionaires are living.