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- bkraj, on 06/30/2009, -1/+59Mirror:
http://rorr.im/digg.com/business_finance/the_50_we ... - Czechxican, on 07/01/2009, -2/+24Looks like most U.S billionaires reside somewhere in the southern pacific and Antarctic ocean.
- thegamingguy, on 06/30/2009, -0/+20Bill Gates got his "championship belt" back by ONLY losing $18 billion.
- gaqua, on 07/01/2009, -4/+24It's the American Dream, right? A nice little house with a white picket fence and a two car garage, owned by the faceless corporate everyman whom you'll exploit mercilessly with middle-management and overly zealous rules that stifle creativity, ingenuity, and personality while simultaneously allowing him to be "happy" because he can spend 5 days a year in a nice tropical location with his family in a futile attempt to relax and enjoy himself, all the while your middle-manager is penciling in negative comments on a review form so you can give him a modest 2.5% raise instead of the 10% raise he was hoping for. No trip to Ireland this year, Max.
Maybe when I move to the larger cubicle in a few years. - liquisoft, on 06/30/2009, -1/+20Apparently the US is the place to go if you want to be rich.
- therippa, on 06/30/2009, -1/+19Where's the pope?
- TheIndigoSky, on 06/30/2009, -0/+17Looks nice, but it would have been better to but number markers on the map with a list of richest men below instead of having connected lines jumbled up everywhere. The entire point is to link geography to the richest men, and the way the current map is setup does not convey the information effectively in my opinion. Regardless, it's a nifty idea, and I still dugg it.
- jtens, on 07/01/2009, -2/+16Sorry Africa.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -1/+14Where are the Rothschilds, Warburgs, Lazzards, and other owners of the Federal Reserve bank?
- Stinkylicious, on 07/01/2009, -0/+13At first I thought "Wow a lot of billionaires live in the Galapagos." Then I realized that it was another branch from the US. Hurrrr
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -2/+15plenty of suckers willing to hand over their cash
- Jaime2000, on 07/01/2009, -0/+13Amen to that. I came to the United States from Peru, and yeah, people have a lot more possessions and fancy things here, but they have no time. They are always in a hurry and they are always working just so they can buy more ***** that they have been conditioned to want by ads. It's ***** depressing.
- bizzywho, on 07/01/2009, -0/+11No Rockefellers? No Rothschilds?
- CaptSnuffy, on 06/30/2009, -5/+16Suck on that, southern hemisphere!
- Spotacus, on 07/01/2009, -0/+11I was surprised that Japan didn't have any. And then I was even more surprised that half of Japan was missing on the map.
- jsmith212600, on 07/01/2009, -0/+10Stifle creativity? You should see how creative I am at pretending to work.
- Wubsy, on 07/01/2009, -0/+8Not that hard to follow a line.
- GeNe07, on 07/01/2009, -0/+8I know where Im going trick or treating next year
- DouglasQ, on 06/30/2009, -1/+9Thanks babe.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+8Well considering over 2/3 of the planet's population live in the northern hemisphere, we're likely to perform badly. Also the landmass and natural resources that make a lot of there people rich are located there as well.
- Fruit45, on 07/01/2009, -0/+8It's interesting to consider that the US is considered the place to be wealthy when the the whole world could not possibly be like the US in terms of material wealth without sucking the earth dry.
- NoobpwnYa, on 07/01/2009, -0/+7HIS foundation
- xedeon, on 07/01/2009, -0/+7My thoughts exactly....
- kplo, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7I believe that dude is now pretty broke. Unless you count the cigarette currency he's about to start earning in prison.
- buckeyeb, on 07/01/2009, -0/+6Ronald Perelman, George Soros, and Michael Bloomberg are the only three who saw their fortunes increase according to this data
- rwbrinso, on 06/30/2009, -3/+9Shouldn't there be a Madoff link in here somewhere?
- wrathbone, on 07/01/2009, -1/+7Get 'em next year.
- dramasetter1, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5happier than me
- Fruit45, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5...People that work their asses off to buy things they don't need nor will they ever have time to enjoy, like some workaholic who buys a fancy car that he/she drives only to and from work 6/7 days a week.
- Xaevier, on 07/01/2009, -1/+6So many sad little red arrows, what will these poor billionaires do!
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5The middle class worker is just as much at fault as the people at the top. Maybe if the middle class started saving and investing instead of spending, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
The amount of nic nacs and useless retail garbage in the average american home would make any foreigner sick to his stomach. - jurassiqpark, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5and their credit card #'s
- curtisag, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5Interesting that there were two guys who actually increased their wealth in the past year, George Soros and Ronald Perelman. They probably shorted the hell out of the banks and overall market.
- atari77, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5Most of Japan seems to be missing from the map. I see Hokaidou but no Honshu
- maxxarn, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Sweden! Success! :D
- marlar, on 07/01/2009, -4/+8Actually, on a per capita basis it appears that Sweden is the place to go if you want to be rich. So much for the reign of socialist terror in Scandinavia..
- ddhillon, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Only ONE in Canada?!
- Yarkz, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Social Security as well...
- Arkyll, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3and me
- endisnighe, on 07/02/2009, -0/+3SSSHHH they are not rich. This is a graph of real people, the ones you mention are just a figment of your imagination. Also, do not forget about the queen. Yeah no capital in queen.
- Fruit45, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5Anti-consumerism has so much truth to it but it never gets much serious attention. Sad.
- bizzywho, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Madoff was "worth" only about $800 million before the scandal. He wouldn't have been on the map even if his wealth was legit.
- Thorpe, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3How about this year?
- Elranzer, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Bill Gates overtook Carlos Slim as the world's wealthiest?
Seems about right. He's both the wealthiest and most generous person on the planet.
The world needs more billionaires like him, not like the Saudi princes. - alienufo, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3I was expecting Rupert Murdoch to be on there. Guess he lost a ton of money on all his newspapers.
- SanDiablo78, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Man, and all I want is a paltry 25 million :(
- DrJG, on 07/02/2009, -0/+3Correct logic, and the conclusion is correct too. It is happening.
- faizal5k, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3One in the TOP 50. I'm sure there are a lot of rich people in Canada.
- zerton, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2I wish it showed the cities they lived in.
- alanocu, on 07/01/2009, -3/+5Soros, Page, Buffett....can you say Democrats? Because they're the party of the "common man." Common, like Ben Affleck, not Joe Sixpack.
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