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Let’s look at America’s dynastic families: - Walton: $130b, 2nd gen, 1962 - Koch: $82 billion, 3rd gen, 1925 - Mars: $78b, 3rd gen, 1911 - Cargill: $49b, 6th gen, 1865 - Cox: $41b, 3rd gen, 1898 - S.C. Johnson: $30b, 4th gen, 1886 - Pritzker: $29b, 3rd gen, 1936 (Forbes, 2016)
They exist in America, of course. But they are more than twice as common in Europe.
I feel like the only thing that signifies is that America didn’t become an economic powerhouse until WWII. Our richest billionaires haven’t had time to die yet. Once Bezos, Gates, Ellison, Zuckerberg, and Bloomberg die, their kids swamp the list like the Waltons and Mars family.
You really would benefit from taking a year off to learn more history. Does the phrase "Gilded Age" sound at all familiar? That was in the late 19th century.
It is more difficult to scale a business in the UK, the population is more than 5 times smaller than the US, so it's probably more difficult to catch up long standing fortunes.
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