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by TheGallopedHigh 2123 days ago
Interesting to compare it to this list for some perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_...
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... Which of course the authors of the Forbes article never did, judging by some of the obvious historical competitors (Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, etc) they missed.

Leaving aside the bias for figures from the last 200 years (ignoring many figures from earlier epochs, whose shares of global wealth were no doubt comparable, or most likely far higher).