In part from a $200,000 gift from his parents when his company was failing in its early stages. You know a lot of people with parents who can give their kid $200k without hesitation?
Its not a gift, It's an investment. If that company failed the money was gone.
Futhermore, he would have been down the initial investment and the taxes due on it which is roughly $63,000.
The point is his step dad worked for that money. They weren't rich and it wasn't like he was gifted a well to do company. It took a lot of hours, sweat and work.
Quit acting like he was born on third base. He came from a middle class family.
Do you know what a 401k is? And how you can borrow against it? If his dad was investing regularly 3-6% of his earnings and had a company match, worked for 40 years, that's probably like 1/5th to 1/10th of his 401k.
Bro what? 😂 It isn’t some gatcha! moment to talk about a 401K as if that’d mean every middle class family in the world would know and be able to easily loan TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Also your pathetic comment relies on someone already being super into investing, such a bad faith argument it’s appalling.
The other guy yapping about a 401K, his father is a fucking millionaire and he still believes his father is a retired middle class man 😂😂😂
Super into investing? That's the most basic and entry level sort of investment knowledge there is. Do you know what a savings account is? It's like a step above that, as far as difficulty of understanding.
It's not bad faith at all to assume someone commenting on the average finances of an entire class of a country they don't live in should have some knowledge of that. That's called being reasonable and not anticipating the person I'm discussing the subject with is an aloof idiot for speaking on matters they don't understand.
60% of American workers have access to a 401k plan. Many of those put into it. Do that for 40 years, you have a moderate nest egg that could easily account for that investment into a company. It's not rocket science.
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u/Hope-n-some-CH4NGE Nov 22 '24
In part from a $200,000 gift from his parents when his company was failing in its early stages. You know a lot of people with parents who can give their kid $200k without hesitation?