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You might ask who can touch the man with $100 billion? Turns out its the man with $1 trillion. So that the amount of wealth one needs where you can truly be ab
by sytelus 7y ago
You might ask who can touch the man with $100 billion? Turns out its the man with $1 trillion.
So that the amount of wealth one needs where you can truly be above justice and law under all and any circumstances turns out to be $1 trillion. With that wealth, one can purchase all of the available human labor in the entirety of a big city like Los Angeles for his sole purpose perpetually or you can maintain a human army that is twice as big as the US army! This is the magic level of wealth where you are not obeying the law but rather creating ones. You, in essence, become the law at that level of wealth.
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- meowface 7y agoI understand your point, but it's really his bloodline and position that's the bulk of his power, not his wealth. The position grants the wealth, but the inverse is definitely not implied. A random private citizen worth $1 trillion would be much less powerful and probably much less brazen. (Though certainly still very powerful.)
- atomi 7y agoA lot of his power comes from the insulation he receives from those around him. Generally this reliance leads increasingly to paranoia and in large part this is why we're seeing these crazy headlines. See Peter Falk in "The Mirror" episode of the Twilight Zone.
- sytelus 7y agoWhen the president of the United States gave him a pass, it wasn't because of his bloodline but the fact he was willing to spend a few billion dollars on purchasing some army equipment.
- meowface 7y agoWas it "his" money, or Saudi Arabia's, though?