Comment by andsoitis
18 days ago
> Nobody in the US is even 1% as rich as Putin
Putin is estimated to be up to $200 billion in wealth.
The top 4 Americans are all more wealthy: Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Ellison.
18 days ago
> Nobody in the US is even 1% as rich as Putin
Putin is estimated to be up to $200 billion in wealth.
The top 4 Americans are all more wealthy: Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Ellison.
There are other kinds of wealth, like the ability to have your enemies accidentally fall out of windows.
Putin controls the entire Russian economy. In other words, by today's valuations for companies his net worth would be something like 40*GDP(Russia). Which works out to about 80 Trillion USD.
You could say that number is artificial. But you could say the same about any stock market valuation. Even that ignores that even 80 Trillion wouldn't buy the power Putin has. It would, for example, not buy 8000 nukes. I'm 100% sure that if Elon Musk threatened to nuke Washington he'd be in prison within the hour, and if his wealth was 1600 times bigger than it is (which would bring him near Putin), that wouldn't change things. Reality is not a superman movie.
The grand duke of Luxembourg is worth about 400 billion USD by the same measure, or a bit more than Elon Musk (although that ignores that the risk to Luxenburg as a country is MUCH less than the risk to Elon Musks' companies)