• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 天前

      He has $971b or $982b depending on whether you go by Bloomberg or Forbes.

      And he’s still expanding that ridiculous dragon’s hoard so rapidly that it might be passing the $1t mark before you read this sentence.

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        16 天前

        He is worth that much of every stock sold for retail.

        He didn’t have that much money.

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          15 天前

          He can borrow against that asset value for liquid cash at extremely low interest rates, so he essentially has access to at minimum 50-80% of that value. For all intents and purposes, and especially given that it would be essentially impossible for an individual to ever actually spend a trillion dollars, he has that much money.

          If I own a house outright that’s worth $2 million but I only have $10 cash in the bank, it would be entirely disingenuous to say that I’m poor. It’s far more accurate to say I’m a millionaire.