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Old 11-27-2018, 07:53 AM
 
Location: Honolulu, HI
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I was reading this Wikipedia page which goes over a list of Jewish American businessmen and when I went the to financial services section, I was surprised about the number of billionaires. Everyone was a entrepreneur, philanthropist, hedge fund manager, mutual fund manager, CEO, or some other high ranking and lucrative job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ncial_services

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American Jews in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries played a major role in developing America's financial services industry, both at investment banks and investment funds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ...ncial_services

The childhood background stories were almost formulaic. Attend Ivy league school, graduate on top of class or close with a STEM degree, work into wall street, climb the ranks, create your own separate business. Or if that doesn't work, pool money together and create your own business,

Even Donald Trump's own son-in-law who is Jewish, has considerable wealth.

So is the Jewish American population harder working? Better networks and support groups? More emphasis on education? Culturally, is there something that other demographic can learn from when it comes to the propsperity of Jewish American, despite the antisemitism they have faced past and present.

 
Old 11-27-2018, 09:08 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Jewish culture is an economically superior culture unfortunately it provokes jealousy especially in times of economic hardship thus we have Zionism. Too many persecutions of which the holocaust was just one example.
 
Old 11-27-2018, 09:12 AM
 
Location: City Data Land
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Thread death in 3, 2, 1. . .
 
Old 11-27-2018, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Jewish culture is an economically superior culture unfortunately it provokes jealousy especially in times of economic hardship thus we have Zionism. Too many persecutions of which the holocaust was just one example.
mmm Maybe Im not understanding. One can be anti Zionist and not be anti Semetic.

But yes it's not because one is Jewish necessarily, it's because of wealth. Two parent families strike again.
 
Old 11-27-2018, 09:22 AM
 
Location: Planet Telex
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It's not because one is Jewish necessarily, it's because of wealth.
Well said.
 
Old 11-27-2018, 09:48 AM
 
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Yeah they are.

Shrug.
 
Old 11-27-2018, 09:51 AM
 
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A scholar who uses Wikipedia as a reference source.
Interesting.
 
Old 11-27-2018, 09:53 AM
 
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A scholar who uses Wikipedia as a reference source.
Interesting.

LOL - I think the same thing when I see people do this....
 
Old 11-27-2018, 09:54 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Originally Posted by CCbaxter View Post
A scholar who uses Wikipedia as a reference source.
Interesting.
Anything about the information in the source you have problems with?

Jewish banking goes back to the Middle Ages when Christians were discouraged from charging usury.

A shockingly high percentage of Nobel Prize winners are Jewish.
 
Old 11-27-2018, 09:56 AM
 
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No one is disproportionately affluent; they are so because of their own right.
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