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Mansa Musa is said to have been so wealthy he crashed the economy of Egypt by giving away gold. Extremely wealthy people is not a new phenomenon. Maybe monarchs don't count because they're so wealthy they own entire countries outright? It seems to me that makes them more wealthy, not less.

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> Mansa Musa

That's a bit of a confusing thing, though, because he was also the emperor. (OT: I often wonder if his story is well-known in tech circles because of the end date of his reign.)

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> That's a bit of a confusing thing, though, because he was also the emperor.

That's kind of my point though; owning an empire is an extreme form of wealth, well beyond what any of the American tech billionaires have.