From Forbes.com, here are the 20 richest people in the world. You can click on any of the people to get to the Forbes piece.To put things in perpective, imagine having a net worth of $100,000. You'd probably be happy with that, right? Well, Bill Gates has 56,000 times that much money.
Further perspective. If Bill Gates lost $250,000 on a hand of blackjack at the casino, that would be like you losing $5. A million, to Bill Gates, is like $20 to the man worth $100,000.
F***. That's rich.
| Rank | Name | Citizenship | Age | Net Worth ($bil) | |
| 1 | William Gates III | United States | 51 | 56.0 | |
| 2 | Warren Buffett | United States | 76 | 52.0 | |
| 3 | Carlos Slim Helu | Mexico | 67 | 49.0 | |
| 4 | Ingvar Kamprad & family | Sweden | 80 | 33.0 | |
| 5 | Lakshmi Mittal | India | 56 | 32.0 | |
| 6 | Sheldon Adelson | United States | 73 | 26.5 | |
| 7 | Bernard Arnault | France | 58 | 26.0 | |
| 8 | Amancio Ortega | Spain | 71 | 24.0 | |
| 9 | Li Ka-shing | Hong Kong | 78 | 23.0 | |
| 10 | David Thomson & family | Canada | 49 | 22.0 | |
| 11 | Lawrence Ellison | United States | 62 | 21.5 | |
| 12 | Liliane Bettencourt | France | 84 | 20.7 | |
| 13 | Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud | Saudi Arabia | 50 | 20.3 | |
| 14 | Mukesh Ambani | India | 49 | 20.1 | |
| 15 | Karl Albrecht | Germany | 87 | 20.0 | |
| 16 | Roman Abramovich | Russia | 40 | 18.7 | |
| 17 | Stefan Persson | Sweden | 59 | 18.4 | |
| 18 | Anil Ambani | India | 47 | 18.2 | |
| 19 | Paul Allen | United States | 54 | 18.0 | |
| 20 | Theo Albrecht | Germany | 84 | 17.5 |
3 comments:
I would love to pull a Robin Hood and just take all of these guys' money and give it to people who actually need it. Rich people piss me off.
Not to depress you even further, but your math is off a bit. Bill is actually woth 560,000 times as much as a guy worth $100K.
Come on, now, dplunk ... there's nothign wrong with being rich. Most people are working to be rich, too.
A guy like Gates literally reinvented the way the world works. He deserves his wealth.
Plus, at least in the States, rich people pay the bulks of the taxes and fund the bulk of the good in the world. Most are also heavily involved in charitable endeavors. Without individual wealth, there'd be nobody to pay for much needed programs for those less fortunate.
There are rich d-bags. But rich people are generally a good thing for everybody else.
And I'm not rich ...
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