Do top leaders or presidents of countries or big corporations and businesses do better economically because they were brought up from a rich family background with wealthy parents or from a poor family background with poor parents?
Or better put, does the financial status of ones family background, that is, does one being born and brought up by rich or poor parents, have a lot to do with how well they do later in life when they attain leadership roles in big corporations and businesses or become the president of a country?
Of course they do, just look at the Prime Ministers in the UK and you'll find that 9 out of 10 will go through the exclusive Eaton private school which costs a lot of money per term and has a very selective process to get in, with a few scholarships for very bright students. The same will be true of Harvard and Yale in the USA, many students have rich parents who make large "contributions" if their child does not quite make the grade and they would also receive intense private 1-2-1 tutoring from the best teachers around. It's less true with big business, as it can help having family money to launch products without a bank, but there are other routes to raising money that innovative thinkers can get their hands on.