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Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' (finance.yahoo.com)

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If your dad is Bill Gates, you're probably not getting a Starbucks gift card for graduating college.

In 2018, Jennifer Gates walked off the Stanford stage and onto a 124-acre, $15.82 million horse farm in North Salem, New York. According to Architectural Digest, the lavish estate was a graduation gift from her billionaire parents—and came complete with rolling pastures, three parcels of land, and proximity to New York City for her future studies.

But in case that sounds too much like the plot of "Succession: Equestrian Edition," Melinda Gates would like to remind everyone: their kids were absolutely raised "middle class."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Jennifer Gates, born on April 26, 1996, would have been 22 years old in 2018. All the raising has been done at that point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Everyone in the US is middle class. You can be upper middle class or lower middle class, but you can never not be middle class.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This kind of wealth is obscene and disgusting. Anyone who has kids knows they'd rather have the box than the toy or spend time with you than a horse farm.

These billionares are just chasing somethjng they can never have. Peace of mind. Unless you give up buying shit and expanding your empire it just leads to bad places which is most likely why Melinda left him. He probably got twisted and bored and took a trip to Epstein island.

I would not be surprised if these super rich are doing shit like pdiddy that would shock the hell out of you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

All I got was a beer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They ate cereal for dinner one night per week. Super middle class. /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Clearly not relatable at all but why do we talk about that all of a sudden? Is it a diversion over something else?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

She is a commoner. How else could she raise her kids?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~Why TF would you put in a pool that is 7 m shorter than Olympic sized? There's a reason they are 25 m. It makes it much easier to determine your daily workout.~~

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