Anyone care to venture a guess on who the first trillionaire will be?

[KansDem]

Here's a list of billionaires.

Who do you think the first trillionaire will be?

And, what year do you think this will happen?


(Here are some "clues&quot

[Rex]

1. Exxon Mobile.

Oh people...sorry...didn't think they counted anymore.

[KansDem]

4. Well, with "Citizens United"...

We may be closer to seeing the first "trillionaire" than we think...

[Rex]

5. That was my thought when I posted.

Or the first corporation as POTUS.

[TBMASE]

2. Never

if they earned a dollar a second they would need 30,000 years to make a trillion dollars (starting from 0 dollars)

I don't think a billionaire on the list today would live long enough to come close

[kestrel91316]

6. Billionaires don't "earn" money. And one of the Walton heirs is about halfway there. Some woman.

So you need to rethink that.

[onenote]

7. No member of the Walton family is "halfway" to being a trillionaire. Not even close.

The Walton family as a whole is worth around 100 billion dollars, which leaves them 900 billion shy of a trillion. If you're thinking of Christy Walton, who is the richest one of the bunch, she (and her immediate family) are worth around 25 billion. A lot of money, but nowhere even close to a trillion (and well short of the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, whose is estimated worth is 69 billion).

[kestrel91316]

9. I could swear I read right here on DU in the past week or so that some Walton heir woman

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was worth $350 billion or $500 billion. Sorry, I don't have a link. I just recall thinking that she would be the first trillionaire.

[onenote]

10. Well, not everything on DU is accurate

This is probably the thread you were thinking of. It talks about how Alice Walton is worth 21 billion.

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/111837

Also, you may want to edit your post to change "million" to "billion." It won't make what you read correct, but its obviously what you meant to type.

[kestrel91316]

12. I guess in my mind I conflated that to $210 billion. My bad!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. I volunteer.

[RevStPatrick]

8. It will be those guys, or whoever...

...figures out how to mine asteroids.
Or something to do with space.
Whoever it is, they won't get it from this planet.

[Johonny]

11. Connor MacLeod

there can only be one