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The saying goes:

"If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."

and comes from 1976 "As I see it: the autobiography of J. Paul Getty". There were no billionaires back then. When you owe a bank 20 Billion while being worth 260 you are still in the first category.




There were obviously billionaires back then. For example, J. Paul Getty was worth an estimated 6 billion when he died in 1976.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty




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