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24th richest with $11B spread across 174 surviving heirs doesn't seem all that rich to me. That averages out to about $60M/heir, which is about what you get for selling a medium-sized technology company with cofounders & investors, or a relatively small one you own yourself, or owning 0.01% of Facebook or Google (roughly first 50-100 employees, if my equity experience with other startups is any guide).


With $60m you can live a very nice lifestyle without ever having to work a day in your life. I think that's pretty much the definition of rich.

Just because you can sell a company for that much money doesn't mean it's not a lot of money


$60M, invested well, will last several generations. Hell, if you aren't too lavish, you can retire on less than $5M and still pass financial independence to a (single) heir.

As a sibling poster said, that's a pretty sweet deal in exchange for... nothing aside from the luck of being born to the right family.


$60m in personal wealth is objectively a lot of money, especially if all you had to do was inherit it.




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