Your book is called “World History of the Rich”.
But first, what is a rich person?
Aren't we all "rich" to someone else?
Yes, there is always richer. No great fortune is eternal.
Sooner or later, another face appears.
You have to imagine John D. Rockefeller, the richest American at the beginning of the 20th century.
His assets were valued at more than 400 billion current dollars.
More than the fortune of an Elon Musk or a Bezos.
Well, at the end of his life, Henry Ford passed him, with his car factories.
Then Ford is overtaken in turn.
In fact, the real rich are those giants by heritage and income who weigh on the history of the world.
And to play on this scale, you need an exceptional accumulation.
The truly rich live off the interest on their capital and own several hundred million euros.
France is this country where at each presidential there are two or three Trotskyist candidates, a communist candidate, a socialist (at least) and an ecologist
Fabrice d'Almeida
For this reason, I always tend to look with amazement at the fact that in our country we speak of “rich” for a…
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