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There are only 902 American billionaires*, but this 'Redditor' claims to know nine of them. The wording implies these were chance friendships. It is a big answe
by thomassmith65 1y ago
There are only 902 American billionaires*, but this 'Redditor' claims to know nine of them. The wording implies these were chance friendships. It is a big answer, but not a great answer.
*https://npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5345950/forbes-billionaires-list https://npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5345950/forbes-billionaires...
- bluGill 1y agoPeople tend to stick together. Once you know one odds become higher that you get introduced to a few more. Billionaires like parties as much as anyone else, so if you are not an insane stalker and get to know one well they will invite you to parties just to have a group of friends and now you are vetted so the others will not stay away as much. Different people have different sizes of friend circles so breaking in is hard.
- thomassmith65 1y agoThere are fewer than 200,000 Americans, rich or poor, who are chummy with billionaires, but many millions of Americans who are liars. The post's author is a random person on social media... making claims an attention-seeker would make... for an audience that wants to believe them. The sensible position, without corroborating evidence, is that the author is a liar.
- bluGill 1y agoOdds are he is lieing. However on the off chance ne is not he lihely knows several