"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and "if I can do it, so can you" are the monetary maxims of billionaires across the country that are as fictitious as Santa Claus. Believing that you're only one idea away from a cool billion has been so deftly interwoven into the American experiment that some gullible Americans strangely draw comfort from the existence of billionaires. — Read the rest
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