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Forbes ranks public, acknowledged wealth. Regents, oligarchs, gangsters, opaque family trusts, etc. are out of scope.
by michael1999 5y ago
Forbes ranks public, acknowledged wealth. Regents, oligarchs, gangsters, opaque family trusts, etc. are out of scope.
- pempem 5y ago^ So would this mean: If we have to show our work on who is richest, Bezos is the richest man. If we were to guess and not be able to prove it, maybe it would be Bezos or regents, oligarchs, gangsters, opaque family trusts
- reedjosh 5y ago> regents, oligarchs, gangsters, opaque family trusts Quite certain it is regents, oligarchs, gangsters, opaque family trusts.
- Frost1x 5y agoWhile you're not at all saying this, it would be silly to try and analyze private and unacknowledged wealth, primarily because it would be more difficult to evaluate the wealth. The tax returns need some relative value to compare against to show effective tax rates. If most of that wealth is illegal and well hidden, it's going to be pretty difficult to compare a tax return against and get anything meaningful from. At least in these cases, the wealth is more glaringly obvious in the open and can be more reasonably compared to tax records.