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by defrost 1062 days ago
FWiW there's at least one person on the planet with a personal wealth > $10 billion that still lives on their multi generational station surrounded by native title lands populated by first nations people with no income or assets (other than an embedded 'nation' their family has held for at least 10K years.
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There's many more Europeans who still live and own land worth billions inherited across generations, from centuries ago, than there are Americans in the same position.

In Austria, the top 100 richest families own 2/3 of the country's wealth, and spoiler alert, non of those are recently minted tech billionaires, but wealthy heirs from land and 100 year old businesses.

In Australia (like Austria but with more letters and less culture) they have Vogon poets:

https://genius.com/Gina-rinehart-our-future-annotated

https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/02/15/3431797.htm

estimated net worth > $27 billion.