Richest man on Earth: Jeff Bezos' Fortune Crosses $130 Billion!

[Kapadons]

Keep defending tax evasion and unethical tax avoidance strategies by the super rich pro bono, you may get a splash of their golden urine.

You’ve yet to prove why Bezos having 130 billion took away from my 200k.

[Donald Hellscream]

I can't fathom having that much money.. It must be liberating to know that you can practically buy whatever the fuck you want.

[bladeXcrasher]

Jobs are limited.

Like your contributions to this forum.

[Daelak]

You’ve yet to prove why Bezos having 130 billion took away from my 200k.

You're still a wage earner, and the vast majority of the productive gains made by you and all other wage earners are still vastly underpaid due to active policies both in business, tax and securities law that is heavily biased towards capital accumulation. The same cannot be said of labor. Welcome to the fight underpaid proletariat.

[JohnBrown1917]

Like your contributions to this forum.

No need to get so salty.

[Macaquerie]

I can't fathom having that much money.. It must be liberating to know that you can practically buy whatever the fuck you want.

Well you would think so, but that's rarely how it is because billionaires tend to be obsessed with how their wealth stacks up to their rich buddies and are always trying to one up each other. It's lonely at the top of the mountain when everyone else is gunning for you, and Bezos is going to more focused than ever on amassing as much wealth as possible so that nobody else will be able to catch up.

[Deleted]

I want to pay taxes, it helps my community.

Ofcourse you don't. But thats problably because you're still a student or work a dead end job.

[Helgrimm]

I wonder how much of that is liquid assets, and where people rank on that richest person scale. I bet he has a lot less than 130 billion.

[Deleted]

A good side to this is that he (Bezos) recently stated that he will put a large chunk of his wealth in the development of their space program.

[yetgdhfgh]

Microsoft is nearly obsolete and wow i cant believe i lived long enough to say that!

Maybe Bill Gates might think twice about giving away nearly all his wealth to charity!!

[Gorgodeus]

Well you would think so, but that's rarely how it is because billionaires tend to be obsessed with how their wealth stacks up to their rich buddies and are always trying to one up each other. It's lonely at the top of the mountain when everyone else is gunning for you, and Bezos is going to more focused than ever on amassing as much wealth as possible so that nobody else will be able to catch up.

The only reason he is ahead of Bill Gates is because Gates has given over $35 billion to charity.

[JohnBrown1917]

A good side to this is that he (Bezos) recently stated that he will put a large chunk of his wealth in the development of their space program.

Yay, more commercialism of space.

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Microsoft is nearly obsolete and wow i cant believe i lived long enough to say that!

lol, any idea how many PCs still run windows?

Maybe Bill Gates might think twice about giving away nearly all his wealth to charity!!

Why would this stop him?

[Deleted]

Yay, more commercialism of space.

Military development aside, the entire future of space exploration will be commercial.

[Unholyground]

How much do these houses cost? 7 Billion people 100k(pretty cheap) each is $700 Trillion. I'm pretty sure that is out of even his price range.

Well you have to find out how many people already have houses first to find the real number. In some countries houses probably cost a few grand or less to make.

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130B divided by 7B is not exactly enough to buy everyone a house. He could invite everyone out for a reasonably good dinner but that is it.

It could potential help eliminate the cost of electricity if done right as an alternative.

[socialmaker]

does anyone i mean ANYONE really think he's the richest man in the world? It's like saying I saw something on my auction house on server X and that's the highest price in WoW

[Deleted]

does anyone i mean ANYONE really think he's the richest man in the world? It's like saying I saw something on my auction house on server X and that's the highest price in WoW

Well, he's at least the richest man on earth with a confirmed wealth.

There might be people or families with more, but it's mostly a guessing game.
For example, it was speculated last year that Putin might have anyone between 40 billion up to 200 billion dollars.

[Segus1992]

Imagine how many people he could help grt out of poverty, lol. Litterally buy half the us a house with that kind of money

$130,000,000,000/(323,000,000/2) = $804.95. A lot of houses go under a thousand dollars where you live?

[Daelak]

Ofcourse you don't. But thats problably because you're still a student or work a dead end job.

Oh and you aren't a wage earner? Guess what rugged conservative individualist, if you make money off your labor, you're extremely underpaid.

[Low Hanging Fruit]

Because he got a tax cut the rest of us are going to get richer. /s

[socialmaker]

Well, he's at least the richest man on earth with a confirmed wealth.

There might be people or families with more, but it's mostly a guessing game.
For example, it was speculated last year that Putin might have anyone between 40 billion up to 200 billion dollars.

Correct. Richest man by XXX source most likely. I think there are families (and notably individuals from those families) with trillions.