Apparently, some of Missouri's billionaires have packed up and left town. Now our richest billionaire is Pauline MacMillan Keinath at a paltry 4.9 billion. We did have a Walton and a football guy, but they're gone. And Pauline's net worth has dropped from 6.9 to 4.9. Oh, the humanity!!!
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I cannot imagine being a billionaire - or even a millionaire.
Being (mostly) solvent is enough for me.
It's obscene that billionaires exist. They epitomize everything that's wrong with the world's economics.
Sue - I think I can imagine it. At least I do when the lottery gets up to a billion dollars and I buy my one ticket.
Deb - I totally agree. We need more of the multimillionaire people like the guy that went to a poor area and gave every kid in the area 4 years of college tuition.
The best billionaire is Bill & Melinda Gates and their eponymous foundation healing the world with smarts, heart, and data!
Cloudia - He is taking up the fight on climate change.
LJ - "You see the point I`m making here Mike, what's the point of having a billion or even a trillion dollars if you cant ultimately buy exactly the thing you want more than anything else with it!"
But you can. Go to Nevada and open a brothel.
Good riddance to Stan Kronke and his money.
Vandersloot is our guy. Kind of surprised no one in North Dakota is a billionaire with all of the oil there.
Whose your "best" billionaire? Do you mean which one's from my state? That would be Ohio's Les Wexner, founder of The Limited, but he's in different part of the state than me. In my neck of the woods the billionaires, off the top of my head, were Peter J. Lewis, founder of Progressive Insurance, Dick Jacobs, a mall developer who owned the Cleveland Indians in the 1980s, and Al Lerner, a credit card magnate who owned the "new' Browns in late 1990s and early 'oos (after first helping Art Modell move the original Browns to Baltimore.) All three men are now deceased. I don't know who's taken their place.
Or by "best" do you mean "favorite" billionaire? I read in his autobiography that producer Norman Lear was for a while a billionaire after he sold his company. But then he took a hit when tried to start a new one (now he's merely a millionaire) Anyway, it's not his money but how he made his money-- All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son--that makes him my favorite.
Finally, please don't be too overly impressed by philanthropy. I can't say this is true of every billionaire, but most are against any type of social spending and have spent the last several decades brainwashing white working-class Americans into believing that the Republican Party has their best interests at heart, while at the same time buying off the Democratic Party not to interfere. The fools who stormed the US Capitol last month is one consequence of all that brainwashing. Sure, billionaires donate money to have all kinds of buildings (with their names) built on colleges campuses, and thanks to the high tuitions, pretty soon only the children of billionaires will be able to afford to be on those campuses.
Kathy - Amen to that!
Matt - Wikipedia has Vandersloot at 2.7 billion. The map has Washington at 6.2 billion.
Kirk - Oh, I know billionaires don't get there by being generous. That's why when a few of them are, they make big news.
Sounds great Mike, especially if ALL the whores in the brothel looked like exact carbon copy replica's of the truly incredible 17 year-old Pauline Hickey from 1985 ! ! !, then i could promote and advertise the place with a sign saying: "WELCOME TO BOMBAY-ROLL HEAVEN", i'd literally go from being a lowly billionaire to an all-powerful trillionaire in the space of a few weeks ! ! !.
Did you ever look at the bottom of a styrofoam cup and it says "Dart" on it? That guy Dart lives here, and he's buying up all the land and building huge buildings, wrecking the island. My LEAST favorite billionaire.
LJ - I get a free lifetime pass for coming up with the idea.
Mark - It's amazing how people with money think they can do anything they want to with no consequences. And I found this article...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/business/kenneth-dart-cayman-islands.html
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