Back in 1983, Gordon Getty — then the richest American — was worth about 75,000 times the net worth of the median American. But by 2019, Jeff Bezos — the new number one — was worth an astonishing 2 million times the American median net worth. This, my friends, is what we call filthy rich.
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The median net worth probably went down also.
The rest grow hungry.
Time to eat!
I bet they’re like the Kobe beef of homosapiens.
I’d like to see these curves adjusted for price inflation, and then also adjusted for both money supply and economic growth.
