His wealth has roughly tripled from $35.5 billion in 2015, making him one of only 14 people worth more than $100 billion by Forbes’ reckoning. Excluding his fortune leaves a sizable hole in the Bloomberg index.

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    Their list has always not included some of the truly richest people in the world, like for example some Saudis. It’s a pretty meaningless list.

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        Fun fact. Fourbe in French a means dishonest person. A liar. A hypocrite.

        I always thought Forbes looked a lot like that word.

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        Wow, such nonsense. ALL billionaires obtained significant portions of their wealth illegally

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          As I said in another comment, illegal /= unethical or immoral. Most people on the list used shady, yet legal, practices. Few probably engaged in outright illegal acts to obtain their wealth.

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    I wish all the billionaires would launch themselves into space to fuck off forever.

    That or go on more submarine expeditions I guess.

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      Bloomberg pretty much singlehandedly derailed progressive challengers and propped Biden up (disclaimer: I voted Biden in the end but he wasn’t even my 3rd primaries choice).

      He specifically said ahead of the 2020 primaries that he’d only run to ensure neither Sanders or Warren won if they were gaining momentum.

      Fuck him.

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      Only to be replaced by new ones. It’s a human trait that needs to be ejected from our genome

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    I wish Bloomberg would stop spamming anti marijuana propaganda all the time on his website and passing it off as “news”. Fuck that asshat. What companies does he own so I can boycott them all?