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The British Crown is barely a billionaire. Augustus may have been independently wealthy, I'm just saying don't attribute the wealth of the state to him as well
by anonymouskimmer 3y ago
The British Crown is barely a billionaire.
Augustus may have been independently wealthy, I'm just saying don't attribute the wealth of the state to him as well.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> British Crown is barely a billionaire I'm using the Crown to illustrate the difference between the personal assets of a head of state and the assets of their state. > just saying don't attribute the wealth of the state to him as well The SCMP article you're responding to makes it clear they aren't doing this.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoSort of. But they're also trying to convert percentages of much poorer and much smaller empires of yore into percentages of today's GWP.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> The British Crown is barely a billionaire. The Crown is a billionaire many, many times over. The monarch as an individual may or may not be "barely a billionaire", depending on how you look at things.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoI thought it was only in the mid 10 figures, but it does appear to be 11 figures.