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by thelastgallon 250 days ago
I think your read is right. There are a few people who want to be trillionaires and aren't too picky about to get there: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Trump, Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, Putin. Maybe Bezos and Zuckerberg.

Of course, there wouldn't be many people who don't want to be trillionaires. Rare exceptions[1]. But these are the people with means to get there.

[1]: No means NO - Do you want a one million dollar answer NO!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtWC4X628Ek

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I definitely would not want to be a trillionaire yeah. Having a million or so would be nice but more and you get roped into all kinds of power play and you have to get security goons with you all the time to avoid getting kidnapped. I'd much rather be anonymous.
to be fair I couldn't recognize 99% of billionaires and crazy people are easy to deal with if you know what I mean.
To be fair, you're probably not an organized crime syndicate looking for targets either.
crime syndicates are just as afraid of people with that much money.