True wealth.(In Fact ...)(report from group of affluent Americans presents stories from wealthy people on how they got rich)(Brief Article)

Nation, The, October, 2004

* Forbes magazine's annual celebration of the 400 richest Americans has just appeared. As a kind of companion document we recommend another report, I Didn't Do It Alone: Society's Contribution to Individual Wealth and Success. The authors are Chuck Collins, Scott Klinger and Mike Lapham, of Responsible Wealth, a group of affluent Americans who advocate reducing economic inequality and champion the estate tax and taxing the rich.

Their report features stories by wealthy people crediting their success to social advantages, luck and privilege. They are contrasted with self-proclaimed self-made types who deny a debt to society (www.faireconomy.org).