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>Some wealthy individuals were born into very privileged families ... certainly does not apply universally

Sure I agree--like the guy who came up with processing debit transactions in order of dollar-amount instead of in order of transaction-time when calculating overdraft fees.. like that guy probably got a huge bonus for coming up with the scheme, and he probably didn't get the idea from his grandpa's will.



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