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Fatnino · 2022-12-12 13:37:26

*second richest.

Cu3PO42 | karma 2043 | avg karma 3.88 · | 2020-12-20 18:39:16+00:00

Not the richest, but the second richest according to current estimates. Second to Jeff Bezos only, who also massively increased his wealth this year.

https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/ (I had to disable essentially all content blockers to get this site to load.)

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FirmwareBurner | karma 7715 | avg karma 2.62 · | 2023-12-06 07:49:03

*)Rich Americans

kache_ | karma 2057 | avg karma 3.38 · | 2021-06-15 19:02:42+00:00

And richest

mmmmmbop | karma 927 | avg karma 3.96 · | 2021-04-12 15:51:51

Genuinely curious: Do you have any more background on this? Who are these rich people that are not listed in Forbes?

beretguy | karma 987 | avg karma 1.24 · | 2024-06-17 18:44:08

Some people are rich.

seigando | karma 1540 | avg karma 9.01 · | 2021-05-04 15:10:08

Wow. that puts him in the top 30 richest people on earth...according to https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#233e45c53d78 which i randomly googled.

arcosdev | karma 247 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2013-07-04 19:28:42+00:00

Most wealthy people.

philh | karma 3655 | avg karma 2.54 · | 2012-09-11 12:44:37

> Warren Buffet anyone (who if I remember correctly is the 2nd richest man in the world now, because he gave away enough to make Bill Gates the 1st)?

Not that it matters, but Carlos Slim is richer than either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_list_of_billionaires

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sharemywin | karma 5432 | avg karma 0.74 · | 2018-01-09 16:07:27+00:00

This was pretty interesting in terms of all time wealthiest people:

http://time.com/money/3977798/the-10-richest-people-of-all-t...

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robocat | karma 11778 | avg karma 2.08 · | 2021-11-10 13:49:56

Here’s a list of the richest people in the world: https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/

Avshalom | karma 10515 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2013-06-24 10:42:49

I can't help but notice that they are still super rich.

quantified | karma 4275 | avg karma 1.28 · | 2023-10-13 22:30:14

More billionaires where he came from.

VoodooJuJu | karma 2612 | avg karma 2.88 · | 2022-01-25 11:30:56

>All while the world's elites have doubled or tripled their fortunes

Who and how?

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VictorPath | karma 403 | avg karma 0.92 · | 2023-01-02 10:41:33

Ok let us go down Forbes 2022 billionaires list

Musk - father owned diamond mines

Bezos - alluded to in article - big loan from parents

Arnault - father owned Ferret-Savinel

Gates - born with million dollar trust fund, grandfather ran bank, mother on board with IBM's Opel etc.

Buffett - grandfather owned chain of stores, father a congressman

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johannes1234321 | karma 5648 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2019-08-22 20:54:08

Or the competition on the Forbes list of the richest people.

igravious | karma 3901 | avg karma 1.49 · | 2020-04-29 17:12:55+00:00

Donations this month is a meaningless metric.

Total % of net worth would be the obvious metric, wouldn't it?

Is this only US billionaires? There are 614 billionaires in the US according to Forbes[0], there are only 29 listed here, ~5% of the total.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

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HeadsUpHigh | karma 709 | avg karma 1.15 · | 2018-09-16 12:53:34

Other rich people who got richer.

Animats | karma 143047 | avg karma 6.11 · | 2017-02-04 23:58:50+00:00

That's so 1950s.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/world/eight-richest-wealt...

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Mz | karma 25085 | avg karma 2.54 · | 2014-03-29 20:43:50+00:00

Closing remarks:

...there's a lot less fluctuation in the top ranks of the wealthy than there is among the highest income households.

Bill Gates' income in any given year may be topped by that of a hedge fund manager, Williams noted. But his wealth remains vast enough to keep him among the world's richest for a very long time.

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