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Old money (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_money): The Du Pont family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Pont_family#Fa

Old money (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_money): The Du Pont family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Pont_family#Family_tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Pont_family#Family_tree The Vanderbilt family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt_family#Vanderbilt_family_tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt_family#Vanderbilt_f... The Rockefeller family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_family#Members https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_family#Members The Astor family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_family#Astor_family_tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_family#Astor_family_tree The Ford family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford_family_tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford_family_tree The Mars family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_family S.C. Johnson & Sons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._C._Johnson_%26_Son https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._C._Johnson_%26_Son We'll have to wait and see for the Kochs and Hunts.

runako 5y ago
Along these lines, what's fun is to look at property sale records. A shocking number of large properties in the US have not been sold in multiple generations. A lot of old money "just" owns land and extracts rents for that ownership. Many of those people have jobs, so they do not necessarily look like the idle rich. But they have a somewhat easier time because they receive some portion of the ongoing value of land (this could be rents, timber sales, mining rights, etc.).