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1/ #HowardSchultz says lot of silly things, but the dumbest of all is his claim to be a "self-made" billionaire. NO ONE is self made. He wasn't raised on an island by a porpoise. We all have help: family, teachers, mentors, and in his case employees who created value 4 Starbucks.
2/ This self-made conceit is at the heart of American inequality and our rationalization of it. If you believe where people end up is all because of their own effort and skill you'll rationalize racial and class and gender inequity as normal and do nothing to fix it...
3/ You'll ignore the way that luck and various head starts based on being white, male, etc have helped you. What America needs much less of is people like Schultz who lack the humility to admit the way systems favor some (them) and disfavor others...
4/ Or putting aside race/gender arguments, just the way success is structured by things beyond our control: the families 2 which we're born, the nation in which we live, health, social connections, etc. Schultz thinks he's different than Trump but in his hubris he's identitcal
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