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> Also wild that any single individual can own that much (and some a lot more!)

Nobody owns a billion dollars except governments.

"Billionaires" usually have ownership of business interests that could theoretically be sold for a billion dollars, but that they generally do not want to sell (because they would rather own and often run the business.).




Why sell when you can take out loans against your stock holdings?


LOL Bezos sold a few Bs of Amazon every other week recently. I’m sure all the top billionaires could get a billion in cash easily if they ever need to.




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