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Considering theres only about 13 million Jewish people in the world, they are disproportionately successful. Top of the Forbes 400, correct me if I'm wrong - 1
by hop 17y ago
Considering theres only about 13 million Jewish people in the world, they are disproportionately successful. Top of the Forbes 400, correct me if I'm wrong -
1 William Gates III, Athiest/Agnostic
2 Warren Buffett, Athiest/Agnostic
3 Lawrence Ellison, Jewish
4 Christy Walton & family, Inheritance
5 Jim C. Walton, Inheritance
6 Alice Walton, Inheritance
7 S. Robson Walton, Inheritance
8 Michael Bloomberg, Jewish
9 Charles Koch, ?
9 David Koch, ?
11 Sergey Brin, Jewish
11 Larry Page, ?
13 Michael Dell, Jewish
14 Steven Ballmer, Jewish
15 George Soros, Athiest, but Jewish by blood
16 Donald Bren, ?
17 Paul Allen, Athiest/Agnostic
17 Abigail Johnson, Inheritance
19 Forrest Edward Mars, Inheritance
19 Jacqueline Mars
19 John Mars, Inheritance
22 Carl Icahn, Jewish
23 Ronald Perelman, Jewish
24 George B. Kaiser, Jewish
25 Philip Knight, Athiest/Agnostic
26 Sheldon Adelson, Jewish
26 Anne Cox Chambers, Inheritance
28 Jeffrey Bezos, Jewish
29 James Simons, Jewish
30 Dan Duncan, ?
30 Edward C. Johnson III, Inheritance
32 Jack Crawford Taylor, ?
33 James Goodnight, ?
33 John Paulson, ?
35 John Kluge, ?
36 Steven Cohen, ?
37 Philip Anschutz, Evangelical Christian
37 Rupert Murdoch, Christian
39 Harold Hamm, Christian
40 Pierre Omidyar, ?
40 Eric Schmidt, ?
42 Eli Broad, Jewish
43 Steve Jobs, Buddhist?
44 Len Blavatnik, ?
44 David Geffen, Jewish
- jganetsk 17y agoJeff Bezos is not Jewish. Steven Cohen is probably Jewish. But yeah, you are right.
- kingkilr 17y agoWhy do some people have their religion listed (or atheist/agnostic) but others have inheritance?
- joubert 17y agoWhat does this list have to do with the article? I don't really understand what you're trying to say here.
- nandemo 17y agoEr, Israel is a mainly Jewish country. He's suggesting that being Jewish might be correlated to entrepreneurial success.
- joubert 17y agoBut what is he trying to "say"? Is he implying that it is a cabal, or that being Jewish is superior? If the latter, does he think it is a memetic or is it a genetic advantage?
- hop 17y agoNot making conclusions, just posting interesting data. I would bet that most of the Jewish people on this list are pretty secular though, and along with all the athiest/agnostics on the list, I think the biggest shared trait is independent thinking.
- DannoHung 17y agoCuz it's easy to make a lot of money when you're in finance and in Western civilization, Jewish culture got started way ahead of Christian culture on finance. Blame the Papacy.