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If your dad is Bill Gates, you're probably not getting a Starbucks gift card for graduating college.

In 2018, Jennifer Gates walked off the Stanford stage and onto a 124-acre, $15.82 million horse farm in North Salem, New York. According to Architectural Digest, the lavish estate was a graduation gift from her billionaire parents—and came complete with rolling pastures, three parcels of land, and proximity to New York City for her future studies.

But in case that sounds too much like the plot of "Succession: Equestrian Edition," Melinda Gates would like to remind everyone: their kids were absolutely raised "middle class."

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[-] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

Being a billionaire in a world where most people don't even early 50k annually is objectively immoral.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago

A graduation gift worth more than most people will earn over an entire career.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Akshually. Depending on which definition you use they are middle class. The original meaning of middle class is the wealthy who don’t hold a title. They sit below the aristocracy aka upperclass, and above the peasantry aka the working class. The middle class is also called the bourgeoisie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie

[-] sibachian@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

i like the original meaning because it made it a lot easier to point at the bourgeois and their politics (which is currently ruining my country and the proletariat is more than willing to lean even harder into their destructive mandates).

in my country/culture, middle class is (or at least was) anyone who have earned a professional title of high esteem. i.e. a doctor. and socially they were highly respected, regardless of actual wealth status. wealthy people used to be targets of ridicule (because they tried to flaunt their wealth in public. i still remember, 20 years ago, how one of our wealthiest individuals were literally crying on TV how no one respected her for wealth and she much preferred american culture. incidentally and totally unrelated; she launched a bunch of reality tv shows about worshipping wealth after that).

unfortunately american social media and said reality TV shows have radically changed how youth and the younger generation identify "status". i always hear about how they will be rich one day and buy a super mansion. but if you ask what the purpose of that is; they couldn't explain it - it's just what they're told to desire.

so from my perspective, the next 2-3 generations are on a path to ruin in the name of capital ownership for the few.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I suppose, to her, having millions of dollars is soooo far away from her life that she has to look at it with binoculars and think that it should be middle-class.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

Everyone in the US is middle class. You can be upper middle class or lower middle class, but you can never not be middle class.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

But Daaaaaaaad, all the other kids are getting a horse farm!

[-] Aneb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

My sister and husband were confused when I said its sad Microsoft owns Xbox, one of our favorite past times. And it because of shit like this. Tax the fuckers, tax them one cent I dare u.

[-] VagueAnodyneComments 5 points 1 week ago

posting from Yahoo Finance eh

if you are seeing Yahoo Finance in your feed i bet there isn't a single word of truth in the whole scroll

[-] peteyestee@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

She means she told them to hold their wallet around the blacks in the city, and that only feminine gays are acceptable.

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[-] vane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

$16 Million Horse Farm and middle class income. Can he drop the farm to some random person from middle class so we can compare the outcomes ?

[-] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 4 points 1 week ago

She's that bored.

[-] AbraKadabra1993@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago
[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

He's such a philantropist

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