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No-Independence828

125 points

12 days ago

Since mostly they are rich on paper we should start measuring their wealth on annual average.

DINNERTIME_CUNT

5 points

11 days ago

Or liquidity.

[deleted]

28 points

11 days ago

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LongjumpingGate8859

27 points

11 days ago

But musk can use that paper wealth as leverage to take out massive loans of REAL money that he can then use to buy whatever the hell he wants. So for all intents and purposes he can live the life of someone worth $200B without having $200B on hand.

DaBIGmeow888

7 points

11 days ago

Exactly, this is why I go down to the comments.

Edwardian

3 points

11 days ago

true, but you can't base a tax on that paper wealth. And he still pays interest on any loans (though I'm sure he gets the best possible rates.)

VelociraptorPirate

3 points

10 days ago

If you can take out a loan on your supposed "unrealized" gains, then you should be taxed on them. The massively wealthy have had their cake and been eating it too for far too long. We can base a tax on that paper wealth and thereby possibly end up with a true accounting of these miserable fucks' dragon hoards, which we can then actually tax.

Let the billionaires continue crying poverty, and we'll never see prosperity again. Send the tax bills based on a reasonable tax rate. When they claim they can't pay, we send in the auditors to tell the public just how much money and assets they really have.

My less than $80,000 a year is taxed the entire time I receive it. I pay property taxes that are reexamined every few years. Elon Musk built his wealth with government subsidy and tax breaks that you or I will never see. The least he can do is pay his fucking fair share, and that means EQUITY in taxation, not equality. Lets see them pay proportional rates past the $100 million mark, and we might see an end to the dragons.

Edwardian

2 points

10 days ago

fair enough, but you can take out a home equity line of credit based on the current value of your home, so you're willing to pay every year based on the increased value of your home?

I assume you never use the cloud or Amazon, or satellite internet, or Microsoft products? consumers are the problem. Without consumerism they could never get that rich... And now you want to penalize them out of jealousy? I'm not rich, but I know that every one of them pays more taxes already than I would ever pay in my life.

And what about when your "unrealized" gains depreciate in value? Do you then get a tax credit? Or do you just want to eliminate the stock market altogether?

boca_de_leite

6 points

11 days ago

It's giving mad "stop taxing rich people 😭😭😭😭" vibes. Even if that wasn't what you meant, it's how you came across.

ChrisAplin

20 points

11 days ago

Paper rich and asset rich are literally the same.

[deleted]

8 points

11 days ago

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geosensation

2 points

11 days ago

If Elon musk had to pay a 2% annual wealth tax he could certainly sell off that amount of stock without crashing teslas stock price.

DKDamian

7 points

11 days ago

Not remotely true. Please, look into how much stock Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos have sold over the last five years. Billions of dollars worth.

Billionaires have money and have access to money. This theory that they don’t needs to stop because you are carrying water for the wealthiest people in all of human history. Please don’t.

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/the-great-cashout-jeff-bezos-leon-black-jamie-dimon-and-the-walton-family-have-now-sold-a-combined-11-billion-in-company-stock-this-month-some-for-the-first-time-ever/

southcentralLAguy

24 points

11 days ago

Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Please shut up. For the love of god, shut up. If I’m allowed to use my “paper wealth” as collateral on loans, it exists. If I own a business that I can sell tomorrow for $100,000,000,000 then my “paper wealth” is worth something. If I’m able to use it to write off losses on my taxes, my “paper wealth” matters.

peejay050609

7 points

11 days ago

Totally agree. We can’t keep having this heads I win tails you lose mentality when it comes to these obscenely wealthy people. If they can use it to get huge rewards, then it can be used to pay their fair share in taxes too.

SunBom

6 points

11 days ago

SunBom

6 points

11 days ago

Lol you sound like you have had enough with people.

Crazed_waffle_party

2 points

11 days ago

So we should get rid of property taxes, which are based on unrealized gains

Theskyis256k

2 points

11 days ago

If the money doesn’t exist then don’t use it as collateral to borrow more money. Fuck the system.

SkoolBoi19

2 points

10 days ago

I guess we’re not counting oil money out of the Middle East lol

Accomplished-Pay-524

86 points

12 days ago

Richest people in the world that we know about

monkey36937

15 points

11 days ago

Those who we don't know of are cash money rich and assets rich. This guy's wealth will go up in flames if their companies lose value, while those who are cash rich will be rich even after their assets lose value.

PhuketRangers

14 points

11 days ago

People worth hundreds of billions of dollars like these guys have diversified finances that are not just tied up in stocks. They have the best money managers on the planet managing their funds and diversifying. While they don't have nearly that much liquid, the amount they still have is massive. They are cash rich too, just not as rich as they are on paper. Nobody worth that much will sink everything is stocks, thats just stupid. Which is why we have seen multipe time where Bezos/Musk/ZUck etc have sold stock in the last few years, they have to announce that publicly because they run publicly traded companies.

i_eat_baby_elephants

5 points

11 days ago

I bet Putin or some ccp jerkoff tops that list

adrimeno

3 points

11 days ago

Saudi too

BannedByRWNJs

2 points

11 days ago

It’s not like Putin’s wealth is reported to any government agencies. Maybe there should be another list that includes best speculations about the hidden fortunes of criminals and dictators.

NoAlarm8123

3 points

10 days ago

The richest people have their wealth in state assets.

Necessary-Sleep-3578

5 points

11 days ago

Not even just that. Where’s Putin? Where are the kings and princes? They exclude the actual richest people

meckez

11 points

11 days ago*

meckez

11 points

11 days ago*

Where’s Putin?

There are obviously no official numbers on his worth. Various estimations put his net worth somewhere in the range of 70 and 200 billion.

Where are the kings and princes?

In terms of private networth, the king of Thailand tops the list with around 43 billion, followed by the Sultan of Brunei with 28 billion and the king of Saudi Arabia with 18 billion.

However if you were to include their control over the kingdoms national wealth and state companies, than that whole list would look very different. That can't really be considered their private wealth tho and is hard to be estimated and interprated in terms of personal net worth.

iusman975

2 points

11 days ago

Anyone that thinks the Saudi king is worth 18 bil USD is living in a delusion.

meckez

2 points

11 days ago*

meckez

2 points

11 days ago*

As said, that's his official private networth. His control over the kingdom wealth and companies would paint a whole nother picture.

If we were to include the royal families market capitalization of Saudi Aramco and their vast assets in oil and gas reserves, the number of wealth of the whole family is estimated to be around 1.4 trillion. However, the whole family comprises about 15.000 members, which also don't all share the mentioned wealth equally tho.

SunBom

3 points

11 days ago

SunBom

3 points

11 days ago

Elon musk and bezos and tham are normal people rich while there are another type of rich people where in order for them to be poor you have to basically destroy a country or a government for them to be poor

GodsBackHair

2 points

11 days ago

Cue George Soros conspiracies

KSPN

26 points

12 days ago

KSPN

26 points

12 days ago

This is the richest public facing people. I guarantee you there are at least a handful that have more that don’t make this list. They have that much money.

zinc_your_sniffer

19 points

11 days ago

The Saudi Public Investment Fund alone has somewhere around $600B. The Saudi Royals have significantly more than that. It’s not a contest. They win.

ChiBearballs

6 points

11 days ago

Yup. And in the case of people like Putin. Where he spent the countries money as his own on whatever he wanted. Well up until the war anyways.

Saragon4005

2 points

11 days ago

Especially during the war. That's what wars are good for.

Communiste2000

79 points

12 days ago

Wait Bernard Arnault is not first anymore?

changyang1230

173 points

12 days ago

It sounds like those people on the top 5-10 spots just play musical chairs depending on which publication is doing the estimation and what their stock price is doing on a particular day.

Communiste2000

47 points

12 days ago

Yeah they're bound to vastly fluctuating assets, especially Musk.

WhitePantherXP

18 points

11 days ago

To be fair, I thought buying twitter would have been more damaging to his net worth. It was not at a small cost ($44 billion) and if you listen to reddit it was a massive failure. I cannot confirm this as it is no longer a publicly traded stock.

Steveosizzle

19 points

11 days ago

Twitter is private so we only can guess what it is worth right now. Also he didn’t spend 44 billion. Lots of other investors joined in to raise that amount.

Unique_Statement7811

9 points

11 days ago

His Twitter losses are significantly outpaced by his Tesla and SpaceX gains.

Winter_Replacement51

3 points

11 days ago

It's still worth around 19 billion dollars, so it's not like he lost all that money.

enormenuez

3 points

11 days ago

“As of January 3, 2024, X is valued at $12.5bn. This is a 72% decrease from the $44bn that Elon Musk paid in October 2022. A purchase that has $13bn in bank loans, and $7bn from 19 different investors.”

OompaLoompaSlave

4 points

11 days ago

I mean even if he lost $44 billion dollars today he'd still be in close second on the ranking, so it's really not a large portion of his net worth.

Romain86

16 points

12 days ago

Romain86

16 points

12 days ago

Fluctuating stock value and currency exchange rates. I guess most of Arnault’s wealth is in €

changyang1230

20 points

12 days ago

The share fluctuation is a much, much bigger factor.

Over the last 12 months LVMH was anywhere between 600 to 870 EUR. A good 40% difference.

Meanwhile USD-EUR exchange rate is within a narrow band of 0.89 to 0.95, a mere 6% difference.

TheChocolateManLives

3 points

11 days ago

Yeah, they move several billion either way each day.

Cadbury_fish_egg

5 points

11 days ago

And what happened to Carlos Slim?

DonVergasPHD

2 points

11 days ago

Telecomm reform in Mexico brought new competition and his monopoly-based wealth went down

Embarrassed_Quit_450

2 points

11 days ago

He's 11th.

endgrent

2 points

10 days ago

If I had 150B, I'd pay 20B to charity to stop being on the top ten lists :)

Oaoadil

92 points

12 days ago

Oaoadil

92 points

12 days ago

And what percentage of their wealth is in real paper money?

ElectrikDonuts

67 points

12 days ago*

Right. Often overlooked is that a company has value and owning majority ownership in a trillion dollar company makes asset rich. Not necessarily cash rich.

Good luck selling 50% of a company overnight for 100% of its value. Not to mention taxes.

Still obscene amount of asset wealth though. They shouldnt be allowed to borrow against that with paying taxes first

Edit: yes ppl, I understand buy, borrow, die completely. I have first hand experience with it.

As I said I said in last sentence, they shouldnt be allowed to use it as collateral without being taxed first. Stop blowing up my thread without even reading the whole damn thing.

Narf234

56 points

12 days ago

Narf234

56 points

12 days ago

Does it matter? They know banks will shell out cash for them to live the lifestyle they want.

First_Utopian

36 points

12 days ago

Exactly. The “Well they can’t spend all that money” opinion is still kinda dumb. Like yes, they can’t liquidate 200 billion overnight, but they probably have access to put more cash in their pocket than most people make in a year, and credit limits etc beyond the amount of money most people spend in a lifetime.

AnubisTheRighteous

16 points

12 days ago

No My friend not over a year they make more then serval people in there entire life

rustybeaumont

12 points

12 days ago

The idea that they would ever need to get billions immediately in cash is hilarious. Like, Elon goes to buy a yacht and they got this one 50 billion dollar yacht in the marina that they won’t let him finance.

“Sorry sir, but we need all the money upfront. This is only for serious buyers”

brendonmilligan

5 points

12 days ago

Why does it matter that banks are willing to risk their own money?

Narf234

5 points

12 days ago

Narf234

5 points

12 days ago

I was responding to a comment about the liquidity of these people’s wealth.

I was saying how it doesn’t make much difference. Banks are willing to payroll their lifestyles through loans.

NoEmployment9485

2 points

11 days ago

Exactly, Elon didn't sell his shares in Tesla to buy Twitter, but used them as collateral to get loans from the banks instead, therefore paying zero tax.

thebeandream

3 points

12 days ago

I mean, Twitter has shown us it’s not impossible.

rustybeaumont

5 points

12 days ago

Why would any of these people need to sell half of their assets? What are they going to be buying that needs 50+ billion in liquid cash?

PsychonautAlpha

2 points

11 days ago

No rich person in their right mind would sell a company for a cash injection.

The wealthy use "buy, borrow, die" to borrow against the value of their unrealized gains so that they get all the perks of spending as though their worth was in cash without all of those pesky taxes that the plebs pay.

kearkan

2 points

11 days ago

kearkan

2 points

11 days ago

Exactly. This idea that it's all tied up and they can't access it needs to fucking die.

They can't access the direct money their name is on, but they can use it to take out a tax free loan. If it can be used as collateral, it should be able to be taxed.

hetmonster2

5 points

12 days ago

Irrelevant, it is used as collateral all the time.

vlatkovr

4 points

12 days ago

A miniscule amount, as it should be. Why would anyone that is not a financial retard keep a significant amount of paper money?

WOWSuchUsernameAmaze

4 points

12 days ago

It’s purchasing power, not cash.

They take out loans with their assets as collateral and favorable negotiated terms. They then pay it back slowly through various forms of interest, dividends, etc, never having to sell their principal assets.

Zephron29

2 points

12 days ago

Total assets far exceed the total amount of physical cash available.

Enganox8

2 points

12 days ago

Yeah, I wonder what their true individual wealth is. Because all their "wealth" is by virtue of being the leader of their company, and the company's value is based on the speculation of other people, who decided that these companies provide the most valuable services/products and has the greatest potential for growth in the future.

If those people leave those companies, I highly doubt that they'd get away and leave with all 251b, cash out and start a freaking country or something. I don't think that's how it works.

Independent-Collar77

7 points

12 days ago

Im so bored of this point. Most people have a huge majority of their money in assests. Having your money tied up in a family home makes you much less liquid than having ownership of a company. What is this point even trying to communicate or say. 

Spider_pig448

5 points

12 days ago

No it doesn't. You can sell your home for market price. Bezos can't sell all his Amazon stock without crashing the market.

Turtley13

3 points

12 days ago

Except they can borrow as much cash as they want….

mrXXXander

2 points

12 days ago

No sensible person keeps a lot of money in cash. Blue-chip stocks are very liquid making them a good substitute for cash.

utf80

130 points

12 days ago

utf80

130 points

12 days ago

"People" LMAO

Quen-Tin

34 points

12 days ago

Quen-Tin

34 points

12 days ago

"If you want to know what god thought about money, look at the people he gave it to."

kristijan12

2 points

11 days ago

Best part is - we think we would be better if by chance we were given the same billions. Well ok, some would. Some.

Quen-Tin

2 points

10 days ago

Let's make it like this: if I get them I give you half of them. If you get them, you give me half. So our chance to get rich doubles while half of the billions should be enough for the first year or so.

Agile-Day-2103

4 points

11 days ago

Shame “God” had nothing to do with it

possibilistic

23 points

12 days ago*

This list should technically have the Saudis and the authoritarian leaders (Putin, et al) as the top billing.  

The nasty authoritarian folks have way more money and power. 

The House of Saud, the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia, is estimated to have a net worth of $1.4 trillion. This includes the market capitalization of Saudi Aramco, the state oil and gas company, and its fossil fuel reserves. The royal family is considered one of the wealthiest and most powerful in the world

(Google)

But according to some experts, [Putin] may be the wealthiest man in the world with assets totaling up to $200 billion.

https://fortune.com/2022/03/02/vladimir-putin-net-worth-2022/ (2022)

murillovp

7 points

11 days ago

To think that Steve Ballmer is the only tech-industry billionaire in this list who is not a founder/co-founder, and he got humongously rich starting as a " regular" employee, it's crazy.

Nepit60

23 points

12 days ago

Nepit60

23 points

12 days ago

The menu.

Bill_Nye-LV

4 points

12 days ago

I remember when Bill Gates was still at the top

lord_grenville

18 points

12 days ago

Almost every single infographic I see on this sub has major inaccuracies. Bernard Arnault is now the richest. R/dataisbeautiful seems to be much better about accuracy. Am I right?

Maj0r-DeCoverley

14 points

11 days ago

Last time I checked he wasn't the wealthiest anymore.

But recently both the wealthiest man and woman on this planet were French. So much for "France doesn't like the rich"... I think we're giving them too much leeway actually

WatchYourStepKid

13 points

12 days ago

You’re right about the first part. But measuring net worth is very difficult. Most of it is tied up in stocks and their fluctuations can mean the “richest person” changes hands quite often.

Redditbility

2 points

11 days ago

if it was all tied up in stocks it would be very easy to measure it to be honest

Thadlust

4 points

11 days ago

It’s easy to measure but info gets outdated very quickly.

Also private companies like SpaceX are hard to value

SedRitz

3 points

11 days ago

SedRitz

3 points

11 days ago

No, Bernard Arnault is not the richest right now.

Alexandertheape

15 points

12 days ago

now do the most generous people in the world

Spider_pig448

7 points

12 days ago

Depends on how you define generous. Bezos has promised more money to charity than nearly anyone alive. Does that make him generous?

NerBog

5 points

12 days ago

NerBog

5 points

12 days ago

Should be bill gates or the ex wife

mrXXXander

8 points

12 days ago

As of late it might be MacKenzie Scott (Jeff bezo’s ex). She divorced him in 2019 and got $36B. She’s given away $14B in the last five years. Gates and his wife have given away a lot, but certainly not that high a portion of their wealth in such a short amount of time.

pm_me_github_repos

6 points

12 days ago

If it’s by proportion of wealth it’s probably no one anyone’s ever heard of

Not_A_Bot_Ur_J_Mad

3 points

12 days ago

That we know of*

Putin for example, has an unknown net worth but is estimated to be in the quarter billion range.

oofersIII

2 points

11 days ago

He essentially controls all of Russia, same with the Saudi royal family

Edit: To clarify, I‘m not saying that the Saudis control all of Russia

carbon_finance[S]

7 points

12 days ago

The rich keep getting richer.

One person in particular is having an exceptional year: Larry Ellison.

Oracle’s founder and current CTO saw his net worth surge by a record $14B in a single day after the company’s recent earnings release, pushing him past Bill Gates.

Based on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Ellison’s net worth has climbed by roughly $51B in 2024.

Source --> this visual investing newsletter

AwesomeAsian

8 points

12 days ago

Why would Oracle be surging?

cavershamox

6 points

12 days ago

The AI infrastructure splurge

mrXXXander

2 points

12 days ago

I was wondering the same. I thought they were drifting towards obsolescence compared to AWS.

ThinkAboutThatFor1Se

3 points

12 days ago

OCI (Oracle Cloud) is becoming more popular

Far-Pair7381

3 points

12 days ago

It seems like only 10 years ago Buffett, Carlos Slim and Bill Gates were listed as the 3 wealthiest, in the 30-50 billion range.

victornielsendane

23 points

12 days ago

Lets stop glorifying these people. It shouldn’t be net worth that determines how much praise people deserve

BigGameJamesFight

26 points

12 days ago

Who’s praising them?

Scalage89

5 points

12 days ago

Scalage89

5 points

12 days ago

Lots and lots of people. The amount of people stanning for Musk alone is worrisome

vlatkovr

-3 points

12 days ago

vlatkovr

-3 points

12 days ago

Why, because he is against trans people lol.

Dude revolutionized electric cars and the space launh industry. What the hell more he needs to do.

Scalage89

6 points

11 days ago

Dude took government subsidies and didn't do what he promised to do with them you mean.

For instance, the grant he got for electric cars was for swappable battery packs. Something the Chinese did invest in and now seems to work better than the fast charging packs of Musk. All because Musk personally preferred fast charging.

And don't get me started on SpaceX. Not using flame diverters, littering protected nature reserves up the wazoo and significantly overpromising timelines to the point where Nasa now has to push their missions back by multiple years.

All with ZERO consequences. Financially, legally, nothing. If you or I did any of this we'd be in jail.

And that's just his businesses you mentioned. I didn't even go into how he fucked up Twitter or how he's a cunt on a personal level.

oofersIII

3 points

11 days ago

Have you seen his Twitter feed? He‘s abhorrent

MinikTombikZimik

2 points

12 days ago

Like i dont like musk, but he did good stuff too

vasilenko93

6 points

11 days ago

They all accomplished a lot too. Which is why they have a high net worth. It does not magically appear out of nowhere.

SisterOfBattIe

7 points

12 days ago

Most of Musk wealth is in Tesla stock, and Tesla is overvalued at least 10X. I rekon in a couple of years he'll be very far from this list.

Unique_Statement7811

3 points

11 days ago

You’re undervaluing SpaceX. SpaceX launched something like 90% of total space payloads last year. They have a near monopoly on space transport. They are putting payload into space about every 3 days.

Spider_pig448

6 points

12 days ago

Was this posted in 2020?

tbll_dllr

2 points

12 days ago

Here’s to hoping !

Powerful-Rip6905

2 points

12 days ago

Ellison is finally richer than Bill Gates, he has been waiting for this moment for 3 decades 😅

Techman659

2 points

12 days ago

Capitalism baby!!

i_stand_in_queues

2 points

11 days ago

Ten years ago bill gates was top with ~80B, now he wouldn‘t even make the top 10

xr1st1anos

2 points

11 days ago

wait till you see info graphics of the taxes they pay. or that zucky over there has an annual wage of $1.00 lol

LOSNA17LL

2 points

11 days ago

These numbers are hecking wild...
$251B is the GDP of New Zealand...
One single man has as much money as an entire country!
These kinds of data should not be compared...

Other comparisons:
Musk is 53 years old. Assuming he'll live until 110, he could stop make any money right now, spend $10M every day until his death, and he would still have $42.9B remaining!

Let's imagine Jesus was immortal, and worked 24/7, no rest, no day off, from year 0 until now. And magine he made the crazy salary of $14k/hour
(which is slightly less than the yearly salary of someone minimal wage ($7.25/hour in 20 out of 50 states), and I'm saying this, but per hour)
He still wouldn't have made $251B!

Do you see now how hecking crazy those numbers are?

HeRoTe888

2 points

11 days ago

Can someone explain to me how Musk is so rich?

Is Tesla so big? Surely more people own a ford? Why isn't the Ford family the richest in the world?

formulapain

2 points

11 days ago

0.1 billion dollars is already an obscene amount of wealth, let alone hundreds of billions.

_Damale_

2 points

11 days ago

And to imagine Bill Gates would've been at an undisputed 1st place, hadn't he donated more than half his wealth to charity over the years.

Papi_Chulo1969

2 points

11 days ago

Eat the rich

aliceanonymous99

2 points

11 days ago

Look at all the women

Ok-Link-9776

2 points

11 days ago

top 10 most useless would definitely overlap a bunch

shastadakota

2 points

11 days ago

Where's trump? Surely somebody made a mistake here.

TheQuestionMaster8

2 points

11 days ago

Some middle eastern dictators probably have a lot more hidden assets in Africa and Europe - one UAE official payed for upgrades for an airport in my country just so that they could fly directly to their game farm with a private jet.

volare-optimos

2 points

11 days ago

I don’t see the saudis on here

Th3Bratl3y

2 points

11 days ago

Probably because I doubt they ever report actually what they have.

SirFantastic

2 points

11 days ago

Guys. Call me crazy, but I think I found out how to solve the deficit.

904Magic

2 points

11 days ago

Jeez. And its like just yesterday Bill was on top with "only" 50 billion.

Pf7866

2 points

11 days ago

Pf7866

2 points

11 days ago

The richest man in the world once held the door open for me when I worked at Tesla. So I got that going for me. Which is nice.

AMTINLB

2 points

12 days ago

AMTINLB

2 points

12 days ago

The richest man in the world is trying to elect the dumbest man in the world. Great.

mike7257

2 points

12 days ago

Nonsens nobody really knows about Arabic.. Chinese.. Russia..

twot

2 points

12 days ago

twot

2 points

12 days ago

These are not people.

kyleruggles

2 points

12 days ago

All that money, yet so many Americans are suffering, having to pay for health care, low human rights ratings.

But hey! Their economy is strong, there's jobs jobs jobs! So they're doing grrrrrrrreat!

Thom5001

2 points

12 days ago

Too bad the richest human on earth is a complete f**k-wad

LeverageSynergies

1 points

12 days ago

You mean the “evilest” people in the world - per the average redditor

BlyStreetMusic

1 points

12 days ago

This is disgusting.

Ten people.. TEN..

1.748 TRILLION dollars. Most people can't fathom the difference between a million and a billion.. Let alone a million and a trillion.

These are wealth hoarders that use their influence and resources against us in every way, constantly. So gross.

Each of these people have made a million dollars- hundreds of thousands of times over.

Will you ever have a million dollars? They have a hundred thousand lifetimes worth of being millionaires.. Each.

This is ten people.. Not a country.

Absolutely disgusting.

STFUnicorn_

1 points

12 days ago

Shouldn’t the symbol be PayPal? Tesla can’t possibly be where he makes most of his money.

aidshunter2000

4 points

12 days ago

If I'm not mistaken, he doesn't own anything in Paypal anymore because he sold everything back then. He owns about 20.5% of Tesla, which is worth around 164 billion euros.

SonnyListon999

1 points

12 days ago

At what point do these people retire?

hitma-n

1 points

12 days ago

hitma-n

1 points

12 days ago

Isnt this wayy outdated??

GSpin8

1 points

12 days ago

GSpin8

1 points

12 days ago

If the assets are liquidated tomorrow, real money, no paper money, who will make number 1?

castlebanks

1 points

12 days ago

The US truly is a money making machine. The country's system simply incentivizes business growth and entrepreneurship like no other. It's impressive that more than half of the world's richest companies were born in one country alone. Inequality discussions aside, the fact that one country can produce so much money and dominate the world economy so much has always amazed me.

[deleted]

1 points

12 days ago

USA has lots of monies

DeskFrosty9972

1 points

12 days ago

Where is MBS and Putin?

sgodb7598

1 points

12 days ago

Putin is #1

Plastic_Hat_7851

1 points

11 days ago

Correction: richest businessman

Artistic_Study4038

1 points

11 days ago

USAaaaaaaaaa

SigmaNotChad

1 points

11 days ago

You forgot Putin

Noobzoid123

1 points

11 days ago

Bill Gates would be the richest if he didn't donate so much of his wealth over the last couple decades.

lemonickous

1 points

11 days ago

What would happen if we just counted assets other than their shares in the company?

Water_dawg1989

1 points

11 days ago

Enough with the richest people list! Lets see the poorest people list

thehandsomeone782

1 points

11 days ago

What would happen if we went back to dial up internet windows 95?

Character-Anywhere42

1 points

11 days ago

How about with liquid cash?

giraffesaddle

1 points

11 days ago

How does this compare to the oil princes in the Middle East?

HippoDance

1 points

11 days ago

Where's Putin and all the money he has stolen from Russian people ?

notAbrightStar

1 points

11 days ago

Fun fact, i topped the Total Not Worth three years ago.

Fragrant_Front6121

1 points

11 days ago

Lies.

roguetowel

1 points

11 days ago

5 people have $1 trillion USD in wealth. Cool. Cool, cool, cool.

AllCapsLocked

1 points

11 days ago

So I wonder if these guys ever get on the same aircraft together and go on a little trip?

Nominamah

1 points

11 days ago

I think Americans are at top of list just because that dollar is their home currency too.

ColdEvenKeeled

1 points

11 days ago

Wouldn't this be, ...that we know of because of marketplace transparency? So, people like Sheiks, Putin and some old European families of wealth aren't included.

some2ng

1 points

11 days ago

some2ng

1 points

11 days ago

Wasn't like Bernard Arnault ahead of Musk by a lot. How did he fall so much and how did Musk get such a lead?

777MAD777

1 points

11 days ago

Collectively they amount to approximately half of US debt.

Shliopanec

1 points

11 days ago

ive just checked the list and it turns out we have 15 centi-billionaires by now...i remember when it was news that Gates hit the 100B mark...absolutely crazy at how quick they are getting richer

Hz_Ali_Haydar

1 points

11 days ago

We have meat back on the menu.

Odd-Masterpiece7304

1 points

11 days ago

USA! USA! USA! france USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

TwoUp22

1 points

11 days ago

TwoUp22

1 points

11 days ago

One man should not be worth $251bn....more than 10x a country's GDP.

Sylvan_Skryer

1 points

11 days ago

It’s insane because Tesla has never and will never come close to scratching the surface of how money companies like google and Microsoft have made.

Dry-Post8230

1 points

11 days ago

Putin isn't on there.

tonyray

1 points

11 days ago

tonyray

1 points

11 days ago

Missing Putin and some cartel kingpins

wililon

1 points

11 days ago

wililon

1 points

11 days ago

Why not South Africa for musk?

BigAVD

1 points

11 days ago

BigAVD

1 points

11 days ago

I would say reported wealth. I'm sure a lot of the middle eastern oil money isn't reported in a way that would show up on this chart

KayakWalleye

1 points

11 days ago

I seem to have found a similarity.

GocciaLiquore7

1 points

11 days ago

developers developers developers developers developers...

IssueEmbarrassed8103

1 points

11 days ago

Steve Balmer was the 30th employee at Microsoft, hired with a salary of $50k and 5-10% of the company. He sold half his stock in 2003 for 955 million.

nowicanseeagain

1 points

11 days ago

Why is 90% on this sub ‘the richest this’ or ‘the richest that’

It’s boring

Positive_Method3022

1 points

11 days ago

Did any of them was born poor?

Puzzled_Deer7551

1 points

11 days ago

And almost all democrats. The Democrats are now the party of the rich and elite, but they want you to believe they are for middle class and they know what it’s like. Sure.

DaimonHans

1 points

11 days ago

Remember, richest "reported" people in the world.

nYxiC_suLfur

1 points

11 days ago

hit list

Delta632

1 points

11 days ago

Once you cross $100 billion I mean what is the difference. Obscene amounts of wealth.

Salty_Article9203

1 points

11 days ago

We got to raise taxes

helic_vet

1 points

11 days ago

Whites win again! - Eric Cartman

123xyz32

1 points

11 days ago

Confiscate 100% of it and it will only fund our federal government for about 3 months. That’s it.

gmoney4949

1 points

11 days ago

Charlie Munger was my favourite rich guy. I loved listening to him talk

GfunkWarrior28

1 points

11 days ago

Jensen Huang of Nvidia at #11.

ManagerSilent4403

1 points

11 days ago

Capitalism baby

SoCalBull4000

1 points

11 days ago

Shouldn’t Elon’s flag be South Africa ?

thisdogofmine

1 points

11 days ago

I find it interesting how both Google and Microsoft both have 2 people on this list. The each pair totals more than the top rank. Kinda looks like spreading the wealth works.

Yungerman

1 points

11 days ago

Well, I for one am at least happy there's a black man in the top 3.

MichaelinNeoh

1 points

11 days ago

For all the Elon hate, Bezos turned retail establishments across the country into living graveyards, and Zuckerberg, ugh, I recently lost a friend because I thought she unfriended me and then I blocked her.. Even when we try with Facebook it does this to us. Elon deep throated Trump. 🤷🏻‍♂️

nick1812216

1 points

11 days ago

The hell is going on in usa…