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Interesting article but Jakob Fugger the Rich was estimated to be worth 400 billion Euro at the time of death and he's missing from the list. How accurate might
by _Microft 8y ago
Interesting article but Jakob Fugger the Rich was estimated to be worth 400 billion Euro at the time of death and he's missing from the list. How accurate might the rest of the list be then?
- flurdy 8y agoI think they forgot the standard of first checking Wikipedia [1]. Though they might just have cherry-picked people for their comparison list. (not that Wikipedia is always correct, but it usually more likely to be correct than most sources) Though it is an interesting read on Mansa Musa. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_figures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_...
- pavel_lishin 8y agoWait, the Fuggers were real? I thought that name and family were just an invention of Stephenson's in the Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.!
- toasterlovin 8y agoThey are, indeed, real. And they make appearances in Stephenson's Baroque cycle as well, IIRC.