Let's see your thoughts on illegal money. Could there be a corrupt politician, drug lord, illegal trader etc. who could be the richest on Earth?
Guys who run deep state
Deep state?
Satoshi
Satoshi owns a bit more than 1M BTC. Sorry but it doesn't make Satoshi the wealthiest, unless the public information is wrong, which is very unlikely given the BTC markets.
When you own a country, it makes zero sense to have that paper number to show off.
1. There are only 9 surviving Rothschilds. Look that up. 2. The house of Saud owns 98.5% of the biggest company in the world, plus all the money it generated for the last 100 years, e.g. SoftBank, most of the economy of the Arabian Penninsula, and $35T of oil in the ground. There are many royals, but they are greatly unequal in ownership. 3. There are several more possibilities including long-running dictators, royal families that go back to Charlemagne, the Medicis, Russian oligarchs etc. Bezos has equity, which is nothing if nobody will buy it. The above all tend to own banks which own national debts of other countries, which means they can always convert to cash because the central banks will always print money to buy it from them. At some point, however, the dollar value becomes meaningless. Wealth is simply the first step toward power. I guarantee you That Jeff Bezos doesn’t spend one moment thinking about who is wealthier than him. He thinks about who is more powerful, who controls the thoughts and actions of people and nations more than he does, who will own the future.
The Rothchilds is a great example, their family lends money to the central banks of the world. They own the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Countries independent from the Rothchilds' banking system are war and high conflict countries. North Korea, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iran, Libya, Cuba are some of them. They are pretty much cut off from the world at large, just for refusing to enter the Rothchilds' monetary system that keep them in power. Enough money buys them privacy, so you'll never see these people on the bullsh*t "Richest People Lists"
Lending money to the central banks? Anyone can do that buying bonds lol. According to public information, the entire Rothchild family has around $15B. Do you think it is more than 20x of public information? They used to be very wealthy yeah. But as the money gets split among many and the new generations don't invest wisely, the wealth of the family decays. The house of Saud is a reasonable guess. But again, it is split among many members. I would believe a few of those Saud guys may have >$100B. How is Charlemagne's wealth is transferred to one person after 3000 years even if he owned the world? Maybe he put all the wealth into a giant diamond and gave it to one of his descendants in a box? Sounds like too much conspiracy. I would believe in Russian oligarchs as well. My question was not who is the most powerful or what is the meaning of life, but who is the wealthiest?
Individual? No. Family? Yes.
Well it’s all paper though
Putin is richer than Bezos. They’re are easily 20 people richer than Putin.
Which 20?
Rothschilds are super rich. They don't care to even be publicly recognized.
Russian or Chinese invisible rich class … think about millions dollar value asset on sale for cents in 90s and direct protection from top level… The Forbes could only figure out a number based on limited public info so I believe it cannot reflect reality.
Are they completely invisible or do they lower their assets and still on billionaires list?
The assets can be held by 2nd sets of passports/identities. Sometimes property will be registered under a different name. Also they can use designated representative to hold the share and use complex multilayered ownership structure to make it untraceable.