The world’s richest people
p2p news / p2pnet: Who’s at the top of this year’s Forbes Rich List.
You already knew.
William Gates III, 50. And he’s worth $1 billion for every year of his life
Fifty billion?
Yup.
We know he donates pocket cash to charities, but 50 billion dollars for one person? Come on. That’s enough to develop several entire third world countries, and still leave plenty over.
The richest woman?
France’s Liliane Bettencourt who, at Number 15, has an inherited $16 billion squared away.
Interestingly, Michael Dell, 41, is at number 12 with $17.1 billion.
Google co-founders Sergey Brin, 32 ($12.9 billion), and Larry Page, 33, ($12.8 billion) rank 26 and 27, respectively.
And who’s the world’s poorest rich man?
Jerry Zucker, 56, "Now chairman of InterTech: $3 billion (sales) holding company of textile, chemical, manufacturing firms."
Buddy, can you spare a dime?
March 11th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
The world’s richest pepople are the Saudi family, by far. They may own over 10 percent of all the shares served in Wall Street.
For Bush, this would be bad publicity, considering the Bush family relation with the Saudi family. So the media downplays the Saudi riches.
In addition to being the wealthieset by far, the Saudi family acts as owners of the country and the people they rule. Also a bad fact for the king of a pseudo democracy, Bush, the protector of the Saudis.
See Farenheit 9/11:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361596/
March 11th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Is it not amazing that the richest man, Gates, made the money because of a quirk in the copyright law: there is no cap as to how much money can be made off a copyright and how the money should e distributed among the real creators (the programmers, in Gate’s case).
There are caps all over the place (insurance, salaries, sentences, fines, prices, etc.). But no caps on copyright profits.
Maybe a cap should be placed on copyrights. After $XXX of profits, the work goes into public domain. It.s only fitting. Copyrights should not be windfalls for the lucky few who created nothing.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
March 13th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Bill Gates is the wealthiest. I qestion how he did it.
The copyright law says nothing about creation quality and improvement. It has no incentive to promote that some of the money made in software be spent on removing the bugs.
All versions of Windows have been buggy, to say the least. I have been using Windows from the start, not by choice, but because the monopoly obliges me to use it. I get at least one weekly crash and have to reinstall it about every two months. Installing new hardware is a nightmare.
I propose that Bill Gates’s fortume was made in great part with the money he saved by not debugging Windows. All Bill does is make new versions that sell the same programs again and again to the same customers. Shit, if I could do that I would be a billionaire too.
Real crap, Windows and the Copyright law, that “protects” the creators of crappy software jsu as it protects crappy movies and crppy “music”.
March 13th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
zzzzzzzzzz…get a life, by refering to M.Moore you lose all credibility.
See FarenHYPE 9-11