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When the original point is that there's some supremely finite amount of billionaires, yes, anecdotal evidence is a significant proportion of that cohort and provides insight that runs counter to your point.
I'll repeat myself: the ultra wealthy are not wed to a single country or banking system, making it extremely difficult to understand the extent and location of hoarded resources, whether just for pure tax evasion or to hide lobbying/market rigging behaviors.
Hang out with a lot of billionaires, do you? Your fake claim 2 posts ago was that these are people you know, then you went on to describe Billy Madison. Lol, you made a claim, it was demonstrably false, now you've gotten lost having to walk it back and pretend you were talking about something else.
Most of us consider millionaires to be "rich", but now your threshold for "rich" is billionaire? Ok fine, how many people are you pretending inherited billions of dollars? The top 5 richest people in the US are Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison. Which of them inherited billions of dollars?
From the Forbes 400 list, only 16% inherited their wealth(none in the top 10), another 16% did have a smaller inheritance that they grew, and the other nearly 70% of the 400 richest people in the country are completely self-made. That kind of shoots down your little theory about "the man" holding you down.
You don't even know what you're talking about anymore. This is stemming from your ridiculous claim that "most people's wealth doesn't come down to successful businesses, but by inheritance", and "the most common way to get rich is by inheritance". That is straight up not true no matter how move the goal post, and it's a delusion that only poor people have that everything is rigged against them and they can't get ahead no matter what they do and everyone who's not poor either got it dishonestly, stole it from someone else or inherited it, and that's just not the case no matter what shifting standard you'd like to use.
Be sure he will reply to this with some anecdotal evidence. That we can't count billionaires as they are hidden in some off shore holding.