• danc4498@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Has a billionaire ever lost all their money? Outside of criminal cases. Seems impossible.

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      4 months ago

      There was a browser game some had developed where you had to spend all your money. It was similar to cookie clicker.

      The point of the game was that once you have a billion dollars, you have so much money that you literally could not spend that much money.

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        4 months ago

        I could easily spend a billion dollars but most of it would be doing Mr Beast type shit like building houses and wells and hospitals or paying for people’s medical procedures

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          I couldn’t not do that as well, which implies that to get that stinking rich and stay that way you must be some degree of sociopath

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      4 months ago

      Even in a criminal case, they will have more than the rest of us to live on after there 3 year, club fed sentence

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      Perhaps Mikhail Khodorkovsky. I’m sure he managed to squirrel away some of his wealth and now lives comfortably in exile, albeit with a huge bullseye on his back. But if your standard is “lose 100% of their wealth” then that almost never happens to anyone, even working class people who declare bankruptcy due to overwhelming debts.

      Does Muammar Gaddafi count? He lived like a king with an anime-style cadre of elite female bodyguards, being essentially the emperor of Libya. He died after some soldiers dragged him out of a ditch and summarily executed him.