Some numbers for richest CEO’s by year, look at what happened after Trump tax bill in 2017:
| Year | Name | Wealth |
| 2003 | Bill Gates | $50 billion |
| 2017 | Bill Gates | $90 billion |
| 2017 | Jeff Bezos | $70 billion |
| 2017 | Larry Ellison | $50 billion |
| 2025 | Elon Musk | $340 billion |
| 2025 | Jeff Bezos | $215 billion |
| 2025 | Larry Ellison | $190 billion |
It took Bill Gates 14 years to go up $~40 billion.
It only took 8 years for Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, etc. to go up
$150+ billion.
Bill Gates didn’t even double his net worth after 14 years, Larry Ellison nearly quadrupled his in 8 years. That means the later not only doubled $50 billion, he doubled $100 billion when. Bill Gates took longer to double $50 billion.
Remember how much $1 billion dollars is: you can spend $2k a day for the next 1,880 years before you spend it. Then these people go up
hundreds of billions of dollars at a time in a few years? You can figure out how screwed most people are.
How much those old “rich” industries cost are nothing compared to today’s tech billionaires. That’s why they can buy the entertainment, oil, etc. companies/industries and have plenty leftover. These people can basically own nearly every single industry pre 2014.
I’ll say this though: George Lucas has a net worth of $10 billion, but has a trillion times more taste in art than Larry Ellison has despite how many Van Gogh’s the latter has (about 4 original Van Gogh paintings). Money doesn’t buy artistic ability and feel, sorry “buddy”.