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I do want to emphasize how unusual this model is at the time, this self-made man myth.
Because you don't want to be self-made, it's low class to be self-made.
You know, this idea that we have today...
Is the opposite, right?
And it comes from Franklin.
Today there is the derisive term nepo baby.
Well, exactly right.
And these days, if you are a billionaire, you would better have a Benjamin
Franklin story about starting in a garage, coming up with the idea from nothing.
And here is Benjamin Franklin inventing it right before our eyes.
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Yeah, fully.
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