My daughter asked me this. How would you explain wealth inequality to a 12-year-old?
For context: ex-wife cheated on me and married this extremely wealthy Chinese guy. Crazy wealthy as in entire apartment building in Beijing’s CBD and a mansion out in the Shunyi district as his “main residences”. Daughter lives in China with my ex-wife, her husband and his son. Daughter lives with me during school breaks / holidays.
I’d be honest. Life is as much (if not more) about luck as it is skill.
There are smart folks out there who have spent their entire lives working hard, probably made decent money, but will never be rich because an opportunity they were equipped to capitalise on just never arrived.
By that same score, there are people who stumble onto or are born into opportunities for wealth that most people will never see by sheer happenstance.
My only impression of him being that he enabled your wife’s cheating, I’d hazard a guess he was born into his opportunity - and while that doesn’t diminish his own efforts, its not a fair comparison to make. Apples to oranges and all that.
Born into it or took advantage of enough people to amass the wealth for himself. Maybe both.