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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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[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

They ate cereal for dinner one night per week. Super middle class. /s

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

All I got was a beer

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

~~Why TF would you put in a pool that is 7 m shorter than Olympic sized? There's a reason they are 25 m. It makes it much easier to determine your daily workout.~~

[-] k_rol@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Clearly not relatable at all but why do we talk about that all of a sudden? Is it a diversion over something else?

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[-] seeigel@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

She is a commoner. How else could she raise her kids?

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