Reply #72: Are there statistics on this? Or are you asking the unanswerable?

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The implication was that damn few first-generation millionaires come from families making under $45,000 a year. But nowhere can I find out numbers on what their parents earned.

I merely pointed out that 70% of millionaires are FIRST GENERATION wealthy. They don't come from wealthy families.

And yes, of course it's the exception that anyone becomes a millionaire. That's why they're held up as exceptional -- because they are. Otherwise everyone would be millionaires.