>a significant majority of members of the 1982 list would have qualified for the 2012 list if they had accumulated wealth at a real rate of even 4 percent a yea

>a significant majority of members of the 1982 list would have qualified for the 2012 list if they had accumulated wealth at a real rate of even 4 percent a year. This part of the quote, which you snipped, is in fact a good argument that they didn't accumulate much. As I said before, that's far less than I earn from trading.