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Trick question. > Forbes magazine updates a complete global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year. John D. Rockefeller became the world's first con
by aanm1988 10y ago
Trick question.
> Forbes magazine updates a complete global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year. John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed U.S. dollar billionaire in 1916
- Cyph0n 10y agoStop being a pedant; I think you get my point. If you want to play, note that I did not say USD anywhere in my comment. Not to mention that Forbes was founded in 1917, and so it clearly has no data collected to "confirm" an earlier billionaire. We can go back to the 14th century if you like (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Musa_I_of_Mali https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Musa_I_of_Mali): > During his reign Mali may have been the largest producer of gold in the world at a point of exceptional demand. One of the richest people in history, he is known to have been enormously wealthy; reported as being inconceivably rich by contemporaries, "There’s really no way to put an accurate number on his wealth" (Davidson 2015). But thanks, I actually never knew that about USD billionaires.