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I would argue none of us have any idea if there is a "trillionaire" in the world because we are notoriously bad at guessing someone's total net worth. As suppo
by cdolan 5y ago
I would argue none of us have any idea if there is a "trillionaire" in the world because we are notoriously bad at guessing someone's total net worth.
As support, I would point you to this 10 year old article on Moammar Gadhafi, where he was estimated to actually be worth roughly $200b USD - an unheard of number in 2011. https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwindurgy/2011/10/25/did-moammar-gadhafi-die-the-richest-man-in-the-world/?sh=baccb5876cf2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwindurgy/2011/10/25/did-moamm...
This week, if Bezos were not divorced, he would be worth $300b USD: https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/had-jeff-bezos-never-gotten-divorced-today-his-net-worth-would-have-topped-300-billion-for-the-first-time/ https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/...
And finally, the ProPublica Peter Thiel $5b USD ROTH IRA is worth *double what Forbes thought Thiels entire net worth is per the 2020 Forbes Billionaire List* (he is on page 3... look at the massive jump in the animated graph!): https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/
That said, the IRS had 20 years of tax returns stolen from it which would detail the richest Americans, and so it is unlikely anyone in the USA is a trillionaire.
- naveen99 5y agoTax returns don’t give you any clue (upper bound) about how much wealth anyone has. But yeah, so many countries are so tiny (economically), I’d be shocked (from my afterlife in heaven looking down with god) if most of them aren’t really indirectly controlled by some centi billionaires.