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Njorl
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Originally posted by Zero
So you are saying that the idea that everyone can be rich is false?
In my life I have known a few multimilionaires and one billionaire. None of them considered themselves to be rich. This led me to the conclusion that there is only one rich person at most. I think Bill Gates probably considers himself to be rich, but he might not. True, he has more money than Andrew Carnegie ever had, even adjusting for inflation, but as a fraction of the world's GDP, he has less.
I like to think about Charlemagne. In 800 AD he was the wealthiest and most powerful monarch in western Europe. There are probably about a billion people who live more luxurious lives than Charlemagne did.
Njorl