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Why were there so many stories of successful businesspeople dying penniless in the past but we don’t hear a lot about successful people going broke and staying that way today? Is it just perceived bias or is there a genuine difference between 50-100+ years ago and now for going and staying broke?

by /u/polishprocessors in /r/AskHistorians

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