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.

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.