Who will unseat Jeff Bezos as the richest person?

NEGI RK Monday, November 09, 2020

Who will unseat Jeff Bezos as the richest person?

Iteration of same question through time in no particular order:

Will anyone be richer than Augustus - Wikipedia Caesar? 63 BC-14 AD, Roman emperor. $4.6tn.

Will anyone be richer than William the Conqueror - Wikipedia? 1028-1087, Norman King of England. $229.5bn.

Will anyone be richer than Emperor Shenzong of Song - Wikipedia? 1048-1085, Emperor Shenzong of Song in China) wealth incalculable!

Will anyone be richer than Musa I of Mali - Wikipedia? 1280-1337, King of the Mali Empire. Wealth simply indescribable!

Will anyone be richer than John D. Rockefeller - Wikipedia? 1839-1937, American business magnate. $341bn.

Will anyone be richer than Nicholas II of Russia - Wikipedia? 1868-1918, Tsar of Russia. $300bn.

Will anyone be richer than Andrew Carnegie - Wikipedia? 1835-1919, Scottish-American industrialist. $372bn.

And only a couple of years ago someone also asked:

Will anyone be richer than Bill Gates - Wikipedia. 1955 - present, American business magnate.

Through the lense of time, Jeff Bezos is mere footnote in the list of the world's richest people of all time.

To answer your question: I will not be surprised at all if someone will be richer than Jeff Bezos - Wikipedia in the very near future.

It is my speculation that in the same way the internet ushered in a new breed of richest people alive, blockchain technology will give us the richest people alive.

Fun fact 1: If Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of blockchain and bitcoin, is an individual and alive, he will be the richest person alive by far and the world's only living US$ trillionaire.

Fun fact 2: Jeff Bezos, at present, does not feature in the top 10 list of the world's richest persons ever.

Fun fact 3: Historians agree that the world’s richest person ever was our man at No. 4 above; Mansa Musa, the King of Mali Empire. At that time, the kingdom of Mali was the largest producer of gold; accounting for more than half of the total world production. Incidentally, this was also a time when gold was in great demand worldwide as a valued source of wealth. Mansa Musa had an almost infinite supply of this precious metal!

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