@richmanparadise: I earned it. No one gave it to me.” In 2023, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz faced tough questions during a Senate hearing about the company’s treatment of its employees. When senators repeatedly brought up his billionaire status, Schultz pushed back. He explained that he grew up in subsidized housing, his parents never owned a home, and he built his wealth through his career. He also argued that he had shared his success with Starbucks employees. The debate raised a bigger question: should someone’s wealth alone determine how much they’re expected to give back? While businesses should be held accountable for how they treat their workers, being wealthy doesn't automatically tell the whole story. The lesson is to focus less on what others have and more on how they built it. Study their skills, decisions, and strategies, then use what you learn to build your own future. Because relying on someone else to create opportunities for you will only take you so far. Learning how to create opportunities yourself gives you more control over where you end up. Media: CBS News Follow to learn more about business and success and sharpen your mindset every day. #ceo #billionaire #hardwork #businessman #money

Skadoodle :

No one make a billion without breaking rules…

Rale :

"I was poor once so that makes it okay"

bl0odsport :

"I grew up in poverty" and rather than bringing other people up with me I now run a business that pays its worker as little as possible and avoids as much taxes as possible..... therefore keeping people needing subsidised housing and keeping money from the treasury to pay for that housing....

marciej :

I'm curious about the working conditions of Starbucks employees

HughNorth :

he's another exploiter he's still evil

w.j :

bro literally said hes defeated the algorithm

logos :

Hugo Bear :

It's like being jealous of someone for having a good body, they work hard in the gym.... They deserve it. just because someone else has a gym membership, and maybe they go to the gym?

Dzee :

he got it right

Gary 🇦🇺 :

Pulled the ladder up behind him

peppi :

why poeple hate billioners they employe people without them the economy will suffer.

Sun Jin Woo :

no one cares where you came from or if you earned it. what matters is treating your employees right.

Liam :

Nobody needs billions of dollars. If he came from nothing, then he understands social inequality first hand. He shouldn't want to hold on to that amount of wealth, especially when he knows from experience how many others are struggling (his own employees, in some cases).

28 :

He is bang on.. he earned it

Ange :

"I came from nothing" And he'll die on that hill with billions in his bank account, never helping those who came before, or after him. Not the legacy he thinks it is. Noone needs a billion dollars. Noone.

nbbnbmvb :

you can get paid 10000$ an hour and it will take over 120 years to become a billionaire and that's working 24 hours a day

Enduro,cubs,cars :

Well done that man

Vis :

Shared the scraps for the labor that people did.

Azul777 :

Why do you have to explain yourself?

Avi :

he earned that money, what he does with it is his choice. if you hate working for him don't work, he is not forcing anyone to work for him. and if you complain how others are suffering, its the economy thats suffering because yhe government isnt doing anything about it.

Marshi :

no. he was lucky and rode the crest of the wave of globalisation. that wave crashed a while ago. of course working hard shd be rewarded but billionaires cant become billionaires without acute and chronic exploitation of something or someone

LupinIV :

so people now, want equality with money now?

The one :

This patronising man makes up 1% of the 1%. Money comes from money 99% of the time.

lil the pill :

if people received a living wage there would not be no billionaires. look it up.

Honey Badger aka ZMW :

let's just examine why Starbucks avoids tax in Britain.