{"id":138955,"date":"2026-09-03T14:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=138955"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:38:44","slug":"youd-think-the-dell-deposits-would-make-a-perfect-media-story-its-exciting-billionaires-share-the-wealth-with-children-parents-get-free-money-kids-get-college-and-retirement-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=138955","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You\u2019d think the Dell Deposits would make a perfect media story. It\u2019s exciting. Billionaires share the wealth. With children. Parents get free money. Kids get college and retirement cash. The media should be tripping up the stairs in its haste to run stories on how to sign up. You\u2019d think they\u2019d praise the Dells to the high hills, if only to shame other billionaires into doing the same thing.\n\nBut no.\n\nA billionaire voluntarily redistributed $6.25 billion to help low- and middle-income children build assets, and the press reacted as if he had donated a suspicious duffel bag to an airport locker. The story has entered the witness protection program and is now living somewhere under the assumed name \u201cMiscellaneous Personal Finance Brief.\u201d&#8220;\n\n@MichaelDell"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;You\u2019d think the Dell Deposits would make a perfect media story. It\u2019s exciting. Billionaires share the wealth. With children. Parents get free money. Kids get college and retirement cash. The media should be tripping up the stairs in its haste to run stories on how to sign up. You\u2019d think they\u2019d praise the Dells to the high hills, if only to shame other billionaires into doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>But no.<\/p>\n<p>A billionaire voluntarily redistributed $6.25 billion to help low- and middle-income children build assets, and the press reacted as if he had donated a suspicious duffel bag to an airport locker. The story has entered the witness protection program and is now living somewhere under the assumed name \u201cMiscellaneous Personal Finance Brief.\u201d&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>@MichaelDell<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/2095521536123830446\">Sep 3, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>September 3, 2026 at 10:37AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You\u2019d think the Dell Deposits would make a perfect media story. It\u2019s exciting. Billionaires share the wealth. With children. Parents get free money. Kids get college and retirement cash. The media should be tripping up the stairs in its haste to run stories on how to sign up. You\u2019d think they\u2019d praise the Dells to &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=138955\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;You\u2019d think the Dell Deposits would make a perfect media story. It\u2019s exciting. Billionaires share the wealth. With children. Parents get free money. Kids get college and retirement cash. The media should be tripping up the stairs in its haste to run stories on how to sign up. You\u2019d think they\u2019d praise the Dells to the high hills, if only to shame other billionaires into doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>But no.<\/p>\n<p>A billionaire voluntarily redistributed $6.25 billion to help low- and middle-income children build assets, and the press reacted as if he had donated a suspicious duffel bag to an airport locker. The story has entered the witness protection program and is now living somewhere under the assumed name \u201cMiscellaneous Personal Finance Brief.\u201d&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>@MichaelDell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-138955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138956,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138955\/revisions\/138956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138955"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=138955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}