You're getting downvoted, but this is more true than I cared to admit for most of my adult life. I've witnessed this first hand from newly minted billionaires to green CEOs: most of them had important connections in place to receive and amplify their goals. You could also examine the type of language and non-verbal values that are exchanged between investors and "rich kids". Sometimes it's like watching a father grooming a son.
For an established company, absolutely. Being a rich or powerful person's kid is tough. You're stuck with high expectations, but simultaneously face a low bar.
Basically, if you're not a total idiot, you end up running things.
Actually your chances are increased if you come from the middle class. I might get downvoted for writing this, but the poor have a harder time because of their lack of access to education and the rich have it 'harder' in the sense that they don't have certain motivations to work harder. These are tendencies of course, not the general case.
I remember reading the Forbes 30 under 30s stats once and seeing that >60% came from a middle-class family.
I'm just 22 years old but from what I've seen for the moment from people around my life, this is what happens: Guys with really rich parents end up at an important role at their dad's company; and once their dad retires they become CEO. On the other side, middle-class guys are the ones starting up startups and companies in general; which ends up making the number of middle-class CEOs superior to the number of high-class CEOs.
According to an article version of this that looks like it was syndicated to local media outlets, 64% self-identify as coming from a middle-class family. That says almost nothing about where their household actually was in the income or wealth distribution.
