His wealth has roughly tripled from $35.5 billion in 2015, making him one of only 14 people worth more than $100 billion by Forbes’ reckoning. Excluding his fortune leaves a sizable hole in the Bloomberg index.
Their list has always not included some of the truly richest people in the world, like for example some Saudis. It’s a pretty meaningless list.
Pretty sure Forbes and Bloomberg also exclude criminals who obtained their wealth illegally
Edit: looks like Saudis are excluded for similar reasons
Why do they have so much, and why aren’t they systematically targeted and eradicated.
They’ve successfully fended off a class war by stoking the flames of a culture war to keep people preoccupied…
Easy to keep the throne when the peasants are happy to continue fighting each other.
Because their patriarch owned every drop of oil in the country for a while.
How about the trillion dollar Rockefeller family
Rothschilds and Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, oh my!
I’d be happy to be worth a millionth of that.
A hundred grand?
1e12 / 1e6 = 1e6.
100 billion = 10^11
Clarification, I was referring to the trillion dollar Rockefeller family just mentioned, not the comparatively impoverished Bloomberg. Sorry for the confusion.
