Comments by "michael" (@michaeld4861) on "The Myth Of The "Self-Made" Billionaire" video.

Bill Gates had access to computers as a child (when they were as large as swimming pools) and his mother was an executive at IBM. He was handed unprecedented access to the technology of the future which almost nobody had at the time and money, his mother also got him lucrative deals with IBM. Can you imagine being handed future technology and loads of money and privilege and thinking "why can't poor people do this, I did it, wasn't that hard?"
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They've done well to clean up their image. Everybody likes a good underdog story, if you just convince people that it's true or even believable they gobble it up and become your slaves willingly because you gave them hope that they could someday be like you and that makes the society they created fair.
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@BarrySlisk Billionaires ARE dictators. They are dictators of the workplace and they influence government through lobbying to write their own rules. And are never held accountable for the actions. Using child slave labor is 100% a dictatorial move. The use leverage to oppress people and get government subsidies to start/scale their dictatorships or in the case of oil they just plain steal money from the people via subsidies to then send to shareholders which are mainly the superrich. They also pay the police to be their own private security or in the case of "defense" contractors, they just lobby for war to profit.
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