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The comment that started this thread discussed people who > started life in the bottom quintile

At the time of Mukesh Ambani's birth, his father was in Aden colony (present-day Yemen). A year later, he supposedly left:

> The rise of Ambani began in 1958 when he gave up his clerical job in Aden and moved back to Mumbai with fifty thousand rupees in his pocket. https://knappily.com/onthisday/dhirubhai-ambani-death-legacy...

If the claim is to be believed, then 50000 rupees of wealth is probably the lowest quintile in the United States (at the time).

Of course, Dhirubhai Ambani is probably a better example himself, but he is dead.