&quot;I had lost about half my fortune in my divorce.&quot;<p>How is a 50&#x2F;50 split after a divorce anything to do with privilege?<p>The author, btw, attributes his going broke to:<p>&quot;My team screwed up some basic arithmetic that led to my financial fall.&quot; ... &quot;You might be wondering what an idiot I am for hiring such bad personnel who couldn&#x27;t even add up some basic budgets and realize there was an issue.&quot; ... &quot;But as to the specific person  (the manager) who actually was responsible for managing and supervising budgets, I have absolutely no anger towards. He is my son.&quot;<p>It sounds more like you can attribute it to nepotism. Though even there the author says:<p>&quot;It was definitely not his fault.&quot;