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Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' (finance.yahoo.com)

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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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[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

No class can teach you what it feels like to be a few bucks away from homelessness.

When the class is over the billionaires go back to their worry free lives. The poor worry about ending up on the street.

[–] kmaismith@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

See now if failure to pass the empathy class results in your forced destitution there might be some incentive to pay attention

[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 hours ago

Made me think of the Meme: "Who wants to be a millionaire? - but with Billionaires, so it's more of a threat."

If we made empathy classes a must with our current governing systems, I cannot imagine them not beeing corrupted and used against the poor within seconds of becoming obligatory.