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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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[-] rpl6475@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

I only got a £2 million pony farm for my 18th, and I was raised working class so this makes sense...

[-] tauren@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, by the time you graduate from college, you've already been raised.

[-] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I worry more about the actual rent-seeking oligarchy in my part of the world running for political positions in next month's elections, purely for feudalistic reasons.

[-] SleafordMod@feddit.uk 10 points 2 weeks ago

I know people want to hate on Bill for being rich, and I can understand that, but I still prefer him to a certain South African billionaire.

Maybe some people will say that's like comparing a giant douche to a turd sandwich though.

[-] diffusive@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

It’s a nice race to the bottom 🤷‍♂️

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[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

This shows you how billionaires imagine middle class to be. They're completely out of touch, as expected.

Never defend a billionaire, they would never defend you. Don't defend them, idolize them, or trust them. Billionaires care about money and the power it provides, NOTHING ELSE. That's the main prerequisite for becoming filthy rich, after all.

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] peteyestee@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] peregrin5@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

only feminine gays are acceptable.

I'm out of the loop for this. Is this something middle class families believe?

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[-] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ikr? Rich and power but still a weird horse girl

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

[-] Aneb@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

He's such a philantropist

[-] vane@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks 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 ?

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks 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

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[-] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Jennifer Gates, born on April 26, 1996, would have been 22 years old in 2018. All the raising has been done at that point.

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