[notahacker]

Sure, but the fact that only a tiny minority of highly privileged people have the skill and extraordinary drive to move into the stratosphere doesn't change the fact that people like Gates[1] took advantage of opportunities that don't remotely resemble the opportunities that normal people get. Their billions may be self made in the sense they were unlikely to have been achieved by anyone else in their position, but not in the sense that they were likely to have had comparable success in any position but the one they found themselves in.

[1]and perhaps others like Zuckerberg more so than Buffet, who could probably have somewhat more slowly honed his investment skills and found patrons whilst working the sort of day job people with ordinary middle class backgrounds can easily get.