The fictitious "self-made" billionaire

'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps' and 'if I can do it, so can you' are the monetary maxims of billionaires across the country that are as fictitious as Santa Claus. Believing that you're only one idea away from a cool billion has been so deftly interwoven into the American experiment that some gullible Americans strangely draw comfort from the existence of billionaires. — Read the rest