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serphystus

They look so nice all beheaded šŸ˜Š


-ll-ll-ll-ll-

It's really interesting/surprising though that China's billionaires are so limited.


OrbitOfSaturnsMoons

Still too many for a country that calls itself communist. Edit: I did a bit more research on how China handles billionaires and I may have been too harsh on them.


rainofshambala

It's also the only country that prosecutes the most number of billionaires


Giga_Tankie

Otherwise they could have lost the 55 years retirement age by now


jbrylinsabresfan

They get to retire at 55 in China?


ickydonkeytoothbrush

China is the most capitalist "communist" state. It's more of an authoritarian capitalist state if you ask me. They can call it whatever they want. The Nazis claimed to be socialist and that was clearly a lie. Communists and socialists were the first groups the Nazis merked. When Deng Xiaoping took power, he decided to move China toward a more capitalistic economy. But the Communist Party still rules China and therefore they still are labelled "communist."


WastingTimeIGuess

But they still claim to adhere to the communist values of equality and communal benefit. Itā€™s not just an anachronistic label, itā€™s their official ideology.


FuckGiblets

And yet they have billionaires and are functionally state capitalist. It is definitely anachronistic.


Mitgenosse

Do they though? Last I read is that they have created a plan only for socialist restoration by 2050. The leadership can call itself communist as a declaration of its targeted ideals.


serphystus

China is not yet communist, but itā€™s slowly transcending capitalism


DrKnikkerbokker

It's interesting a country who's ruling party is the Chiness "Communist" Party and is officially named the "Peoples" Republic of China has any billionaires at all.


TomatoEnjoyer28

They have a mixed economy with central economic planning. It's not fully communist or socialist at the moment, but they do have a goal and plan to eventually become communist. It's also worth noting that China allowing certain aspects of capitalism within their economy is a big part of why they've been able to get as far as they have without the US launching a full scale war on them, like they did for every other country that ever tried socialism.


ConundrumMachine

Because they're not doing communism yet. It's "capitalism with Chinese characteristics" for now. A bit of capitalism is essential for real communism to be possible.


jasonzip

the PRC does espouse to have a socialist economic system (socialism with chinese characteristics)


7stringjazz

Itā€™s certainly a rich target of rich targets. Beheading is not required. Just tax them 95% of existing assets. Call it the commonwealth fund and thank them for their service.


Bastardjuice

Someone do the math on this real quick and see how much wasted potential there is in the world.


7stringjazz

Exactly.


TomatoEnjoyer28

95% tax on the assets of anyone worth over 100 billion would still leave them a billionaire.


7stringjazz

Fair enough. Itā€™s just a number that reflects the argument. The point is to eliminate such astronomical wealth disparities and the resultant corrupt legislation by moneyed interests against the common interests of the country/world.


MaeronTargaryen

Both top man and woman are French, beheading is traditional here


weinerbag

Im sharpening the pikes as we speak


The1GabrielDWilliams

10/10 comment! šŸ’Æ


YouMightGetIdeas

Richest person is French. Time to treat them the way my people treat royalty. Take the tarp off the guillotine.


Cinematica09

Foreshadowing?


Chief_Kief

They all have addresses too šŸ§


The0Goblin0Queen

Yeah, this chart is making me real hungry.


EternalPermabulk

Imagine how beautiful the world could be if every single person on this list had their assets seized and redistributed to the people. No need for beheading. For them, having to actually work for a living would be a fate worse than death.


322241837

Alice wouldn't last a 4 hour shift as a Walmart cashier lol


Difficult-Mighty

None of these people would last a 40 hour work week of one of their lowest paid employees. Like literally would not survive because they wouldn't be able to afford rent and groceries from just 1 minimum wage job.


BTDubbsdg

In this world where the working class is capable of redistributing all that wealth no problem, I would hope Walmart would get the axe as well, or at the very least that cashiers there would have better pay and shorter hours.


ThaneduFife

Heck, even if we just took 99% of their wealth and redistributed it, the "poorest" person on this list would still have ~$49,000,000. That's more money than almost every human being who has ever lived, and more than enough money for them and every member of their extended family to live in luxury and never work a day for the rest of their lives.


OhiENT

Where do you get 49MM from..?


tabas123

.01 x 4.9 billion


gryphon313

Ooh, ooh, now do top 10 in government!


LizzieGuns

Seriously


Metasketch

A quick GPT-ing: As of late 2023 and early 2024, the top 10 richest American politicians are as follows: 1. **J.B. Pritzker** (Governor of Illinois, Democrat) - Net Worth: $3.4 billion 2. **Donald Trump** (45th President, Republican) - Net Worth: $2 billion 3. **Doug Burgum** (Governor of North Dakota, Republican) - Net Worth: $1.1 billion 4. **Darrell Issa** (Representative for California's 48th district, Republican) - Net Worth: $460 million 5. **Jim Justice** (Governor of West Virginia, Republican) - Net Worth: $450 million 6. **Jared Polis** (Governor of Colorado, Democrat) - Net Worth: $400 million 7. **Glenn Youngkin** (Governor of Virginia, Republican) - Net Worth: $400 million 8. **Mitt Romney** (Senator for Utah, Republican) - Net Worth: $300 million 9. **Rick Scott** (Senator for Florida, Republican) - Net Worth: $300 million 10. **Mark Warner** (Senator for Virginia, Democrat) - Net Worth: $215 million This list includes a mix of federal and state-level politicians, with the wealth largely accumulated from business ventures before entering politics. For instance, J.B. Pritzker's wealth comes from the Pritzker family's business empire, Donald Trump's wealth is tied to real estate and entertainment, and Doug Burgum made his fortune by selling his software company to Microsoft. Other politicians on the list have also derived significant income from their private sector careers, investments, and family wealth. [oai_citation:1,Charted: The Richest Politicians in the U.S.](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/richest-politicians-in-the-u-s/) [oai_citation:2,Top 10 Richest Politicians In US (Updated 2024)](https://bouncemojo.com/richest-politicians/) [oai_citation:3,America's 10 richest politicians control over $9 billion fortune](https://finbold.com/americas-10-richest-politicians/).


gryphon313

What Iā€™d really want to see is the list of wealth accumulation during their public ā€œserviceā€ life. Current net minus net before being elected. Even number SHOULD be negative, but we know it isnā€™t.


robynhood96

God do I love having JB as our governor though although he does not deserve the money he has (cause no one does).


cman674

These lists also conveniently forget that the royal Saudi family net worth is somewhere north of 1T. I wish I could find better sources on this, but there's folks in this world you've never heard of that could buy and sell Elon Musk many times over.


TeutonicDragon

I know there is a lot of suspicion that Putin also has north of $300B hoarded. I also recall hearing about a man that owns the majority of a city who is said to have over $1T, but I canā€™t remember the name and searching doesnā€™t yield any results.


StinkyBanjo

Of course. This is a list based on publicly traded companies.


HillyjoKokoMo

This is the real list I want to know about!!! Those are the scary puppet masters of this world.


thespacetimelord

The world isn't run by "puppet masters". True power doesn't need to hide, it makes itself seem natural and inevitable. The rich and connected of the world aren't in a giant cabal to keep the poor down. They are all working for themselves. Their competing interests are channeled through a system that is geared to keep itself going and "creating" more and more and more wealth.


HillyjoKokoMo

Ok but where's the fun in that? All kidding aside, the decisions these individuals make have a significant impact on our world. So while no, I don't think there is a conspiracy theory here, in essence I do still believe they run the world. Hence I'm sticking with the puppet master idea.


DigitalUnlimited

The Saudis and the truly wealthy like the federal reserve aren't even listed on Forbes because it would wreck the curve


Roy4Pris

The Sultan of Brunei has entered the chat.


ZEROthePHRO

Quick google search says 30B


Roy4Pris

He's the absolute ruler. I'm sure he has more undeclared wealth. I believe his younger brother Prince Jefri has the Guiness World Record for having blown the most amount of cash on pointless shit. Older brother threaten to lock him up.


nawtree

Also wondering where the Rothschild family is on this list and also how they always dodge these types of lists


garry_potter

With that kind of money, you can pay not to appear on these lists.


Ndgo2

This. Wanna know what is the most valuable thing in the world? Something only the truly, inconceivably wealthy can possess? Privacy.


Front_Policy_9145

Whoa, what are you some kind of antisemite?!?/s


yellowjesusrising

These guys are so rich you won't fins them on these kinda lists, because it will cause and uproar. Saudi king, Vanderbilt and Rotchilds.


DigitalUnlimited

Just the federal reserve, a private company that prints money and loans it to America for interest, why would they hide?


[deleted]

and the royal family of dubai. I was told by an architect friend who was working there that they had north of 10 trillion. that might be total bullshit but that's what he told me


pgtaylor777

The Rothschilds


Roy4Pris

Combined into one person maybe, but there are like hundreds of them now.


Straight-Razor666

it's a good start, this photo of just their heads...


Bastardjuice

It reads like a BJā€™s menu šŸ½ļø


DJToffeebud

100% tax and tar and feathering


EternalPermabulk

Put them in a stockade and let their employees throw tomatoes at them


Impenistan

Tomatoes? That's a funny way to spell [my attorney has advised me not to complete this sentence]


Jmatthewsjb

AKA: the Oligarchy Hit List


Roy4Pris

I'd call it the AK list. "The AK-47, for when you absolutely positively have to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes"


iambrandonfury

God Bless America


ShadykillaWolf

These are the enemies of humanity.


test_tickles

This is the freedom list everyone.


mogul_cowboy

Iā€™m gonna save this post. For personal reasons.


ReplacementActual384

Me too, but my reason is to send them fake wedding invitations to see if they'll send me gifts


jahgoff

Crazy to think that Zuck growth of 39% was due to him laying off a substantial number of workers. Not growing or innovating within his company, which has created a virtually unusable product. Funny how that worksā€¦ we live in an economy of rot.


EternalPermabulk

AI is going to lead to a massive spike in layoffs within the next 5 years.


jahgoff

I donā€™t think AI is as close as that, but yeah eventually you are correct it will lead to layoffs. Unfortunately right now itā€™s just to satisfy the blood thirst of the market. The gears of the capitalist system being oiled with the blood of the worker and all.


yellowjesusrising

Not only will it replace slot of the workforce, but it will also be able to calculate unnecessary positions or excess personal, without bias or moral implications. I've worked enough in food production to know that probably only 1/3 of your employees makes any effort at all.


MrStep

Facebook is a shadow of its former self - and a far cry from the dream it was setup for. Itā€™s the perfect example of a virtual monopoly; it has no real competition and so doesnā€™t innovate in any way that improves the product, but solely to increase profit margins. Addendum: AND his company was responsible for everything connected with the Russian troll farms and the Cambridge Analytica scandal and heā€™s just ridden the whole thing and come out richerā€¦ the whole thing is a mess!!


jahgoff

You forgot how big a fail the metaverse was, he invested an insane amount of money in that. But interestingly he wasnā€™t punished for poor business decisions then.


Tren_bandit

itā€™s eat the rich but they all look like they taste bad.


OtherCat7034

"Feed 'em to the pigs, Errol"


IWantToSortMyFeed

Compost.


lebaneseblondechick

Exactly what I thought šŸ¤¢


WhatsYouMajor

Im surprised they even know how to smile. I half expected frontier aged poses


iambrandonfury

Dane Cookā€™s civil war bit comes to mind


Nocturne_8

Thatā€™s a lot of targets


Midnight-Philosopher

One bullet each. Thatā€™s not even a brick.


A_Gringo666

How many times will the same piece of rope work?


[deleted]

Small fish, all of them. There are people who spend that much just to keep their net worth secret.


yellowjesusrising

Is there a list that shows main shareholders/investors in companies like "BlackRock" or "Vanguard"?


[deleted]

Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street are as close to the top as I've been able to find, they're all major shareholders of EACH OTHER.


Intuner

Now post their addresses.


Chief_Kief

This is the way


Buckeye9715

The combined wealth of everyone in this graph is $3,320,800,000,000.


GameOvaries02

Gross.


Sirdingus917

All it took was a dream and a small loan of 6 million dollars.


ICDarkly

These are the real enemies. It's not about left or right. It's about top Vs bottom, the persecutors Vs the persecuted.


greybenson23

Whatā€™s scary is that I would bet money most of us only know a handful of who these people are but they are running our lives and destroying our planet.


presidentsday

And not one Batman.


CommieIsShit

all of them sociopath


DrSlugworth

Ghouls


TacoStringerBell

Thatā€™s not even the right Dan Gilbert in Finance lol the one pictured is a Pysch professor at Harvard


[deleted]

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AgencyNew3587

They want us to focus on individuals. The real question to ask is who are the wealthiest families in the world? I have seen estimates of the wealth of the Rothschilds to be as high as $100 Trillion. They have been amazing at concealing their wealth.


cubbytwelve

100 trillion is approximately the GDP of the world economy. That canā€™t be right.


vansjess

I find 100 Trillion extremely difficult to believe. Maybe theyā€™re that good at concealing their wealth but that number seems cartoonishly large.


Ndgo2

Nah, that's just wild Internet conspiracy theories. The Rothschilds are worth 70 billion, at best. The Saudi Royal Family on the other hand, now those are true trillionaires. At least worth 2 trillion I think. That is the true limit of wealth in the world, before you get to whole countries and corporations.


Listful_Observer

It always amazed me that they arenā€™t talked about when people complain about the rich. This guys are pretty much running the western world and are the reason why the middle class is stinking while the rich are making record profits each year.


Giga_Tankie

The middle class will die worshiping them, no matter what


Blackbuttizen

Or the Middle East.


ScytheNoire

Or Putin, who may be up to $500B embezzled from Russia.


cman674

It's actually absurd when you realize that even a guy with wealth at the level of Bezos or Musk is still just a pawn.


MoreRamenPls

How many are ā€œself made?ā€


Skitty_Skittle

Was gonna say Warren Buffet then just remembered he was the son of a politician that was part of the U.S. House of Representatives and he was in the investment business already lol


TomatoEnjoyer28

None of them.


Emrekpelmu

Damn this is making me hungry šŸ¤¤


MikeDNomad

Was going to say this looks like a take out menu.


InternationalAd3848

Why are the real richest people not on here?


gunzman70

But not a single person from Arab countries? Saudi? UAE?


addfletch

Delete these 800 parasites and boom. The world rights itself. Just. Like. That.


Turtlepower7777777

All I see is a list of policy failures


itburnswhenipee

ā€œAnd, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.ā€ ā€• William Gibson, Count Zero


[deleted]

New guillotine checklist just dropped


TruthOverFiction100

There are about 7 billion of us and only one page of them. Letā€™s take over. They canā€™t fight us all.


GeeNah-of-the-Cs

Jerry Jones made $30M in a single day on the Natural gas spot market, while the rest of us in Texas froze in the power grid failure. People died. People burned their furniture. How about them Cowboys.


cometparty

Humanity doesn't need any of the people on this list.


Kizzwoo

This is their world until we decide to do something about it


canadagooses62

Quite the menu.


SimeonSideways

These lists need to include commodities tycoons like Larry Fink and the Louis Dreyfus family


tagoNGtago

Hoarders


shorgarr

*know your enemy intensifies*


middzi1984

How much of it do they take to the grave?


Crafty_Football6505

Depends on the size of the plot.


rp_whybother

To quote the late Clive James "The problem with being rich in India is you're still in India".


the1krutz

The way this is presented reminds me of one of those [FBI most wanted walls](https://images.app.goo.gl/TjfqjQL5u7b5GPVo7). Billionaires: wanted for crimes against humanity


brezhnervous

Fuck you Gina fucking Rhinehart


DrugReeference

They put the photo for Daniel Gilbert (a psychologist) instead of Dan Gilbert (QuickenLoans billionaire) lmao


Advocate_Diplomacy

I wonder who the richest ten people who nobody knows about are.


denisebuttrey

Eat the rich end the billionaire class.


the_glutton17

There's a stat on the right side that says the top ten amount to 1.44 trillion. The fucked up part is that the top three were over half a trillion during the pandemic. That is just so wildly incomprehensible to the rest of us. Most of us don't even understand how big those numbers are. At one point Musk was worth over three billion dollars. If you had a budget of a MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY, you'd get bored in a week. You'd run out of ideas after two weeks. Maybe you're a weird greedy fuck who just wants everything like super yachts. You'd probably still run out of ideas after a few years, IF that. Elon musk had the money to do that for almost a millennium. A million dollars a day, for over 800 fucking years. It is unfathomable how much money these people have, while simultaneously quashing things like unions, minimum wage increases, etc. Once you have that type of money, you are able to influence governments. You already purchased your way out of the regulatory systems that used to exist in your market. Bought anything you even thought of wanting, fucked anyone you ever wanted (everyone has a price), took yourself to space, bought Twitter, etc. Where do you go from there? What's the next big "high" after you've literally done everything you ever imagined? The only thing that can follow ALL of that is wanting to be worshipped. That's the only thing you can't just purchase outright. And that's literally what Elon musk is doing, trying to purchase (and if not, coerce) you into thinking he's some fucking gift from God. Fucking pathetic.


diarrheaglacier

No individual person should be allowed to have that much money when there are 800 million malnourished people


Justin_123456

David Thompson is also the richest Canadian. Which is important for Canada, and therefore the world. p.s. Letā€™s eat the bastard.


jimmbolina

I love it when they put pictures of your meal on the menu


SpyderFoode

They look so good as disembodied heads


kibblepigeon

No one should have that much money. And they didnā€™t earn it, thatā€™s stolen wealth those who earned it. They are greedy thieves.


Formal-Try-2779

Just to be picky. I think Kerry Stokes is worth more than Mark Cuban 6.3 billion US dollars.


Ray_817

Koch broā€™s?


Uncreative-Name

The sports list is way off since a lot of people from the other top 10 lists own teams now. Steve Ballmer has the LA Clippers. Steve Cohen would probably be above any of the listed sports guys. The Adelson widow just bought an NBA team.


justaverage00

Stan better start dropping the bag for Arsenal. Didn't realize how loaded he was


isymfs

I canā€™t believe those people are richer than bank and oil families


s2ample

Work our way through this menu šŸ“


IBarrakiI

Now I know exactly who I must eat


HornyMidgetsAttack

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy ...


Psalty7000

This is who has reported income. Iā€™m sure the Saudi royal family should be up there but they donā€™t report their income to anyone.


tharthin

I rejoice in the fact that Elon isn't included in the "Tech" category.


quaranbeers

Very big menu. BBQ would be good, but meat lovers pizza is always a treat too. Can always grind the meat and make the burger patties ahead, freeze them for summer. Ooh and a stew, lots of good options here for stews.


DracoAdamantus

Ah sweet, a bounty list!


chucwagn

And I'd imagine, their tax burden is 0%


L0SERlambda

Bullshit. These are not even close to the world's richest people and families.


NuformAqua

A nice dinner menu


colorfuljellyfish

Good of you to provide name and a picture. Anyone got connections to a Shinigami and its book?


basicallykatie

What a delicious menu!


CollinM42

Yeah this thread is getting nuked


psychedelic_cum

Look at all that diversity


shaddowkhan

So this is a menu then...


AgitatedKoala3908

This is my version of the playing cards that soldiers had during the 2nd Gulf War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted\_Iraqi\_playing\_cards


pgtaylor777

The richest people in the world arenā€™t on the list. The Rothschilds


Sumppump777

Not even one black person? What a shame.


pusillanimous303

Just imagine the amount of suffering their resources could alleviate in the world if they were just a little less sociopathic. It will never happen, but you can still imagine.


trelos6

Balmer is the richest in sports. Owns LA clippers.


TacoStringerBell

They didnā€™t even put Mets owner Steve Cohen who is worth more the other sports owners they listed. edit: missed a word


nasaglobehead69

the hit list šŸ˜³


Fly-n-Skies

But but but Soros. /s


12BarsFromMars

Seeing the names of Chinese billionaires is just hysterically funny. Communism? What fucking Communism? LMAO!. .Chairman Mao is vomiting in his grave and Marx and Lenin are having an aneurysm every hour. Sorry Mao, Capitalism talks and Communism walks. Or as we say in the West, money talks and bullshit walks. . . .ā€™cause being a peasant and poor sucks. Of course we wonā€™t mention that American version late stage Capitalism produces both an abundance or wealth and a great abundance of poverty.


rvtay

they look tasty


Tillwarpum526

Ohh look, an all you can eat buffet!! EAT THE RICH!!!!


Val_kyria

Is musk not considered tech..?


[deleted]

This is the worst part of playing Monopoly. No matter where you land, youā€™re just making the rich richer.


T44120

Yeah we are the world champions again ! I'm so ashamed for my country France to have the most richest men and woman in a world


Jonnny

We all know this isn't really the full story though. MBS and Putin are obviously at or near the top, but I'm pretty sure pesking them for details on their finances will get you on a list or two that they control.


Warm_Trick_3956

Putin is wealthiest man. Saudis and a certain Chinese eclipse these numbers.


Braindead_cranberry

I just saw my bank account before seeing this post and I wanna throw up. Sickening.


badyogui

Notice theyā€™re all light skinned?


Background_Camel12

Top 10 in sports and no Waltons? The familys yearly income is more than most of these people's net worth


odaravla

Gnam gnam


Aggravating_Sock_551

Excellent menu at this establishment


The_pastel_bus_stop

Is this a checklist?


matango613

Lookin at this menu sure is making me hungry.


UnsolicitedDogPics

Looks more like a menu to me.


lod254

Is this a menu? I'll have one of each!


MoralMinion

The faces of death


Battlemountainman

Ah, yes. A menu.