We don’t talk enough about billionaires as a class, with anthropological patterns and stuff. Though they get tons of attention, almost all of it is either valorizing or demonizing individual attention, or vague commentary about a strawman top-hatted archetype.
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Replying to @vgr
Not large enough numbers for statistical analysis. Same with John von Neumann types. And not worth our attention except to find out why wealth has such a strong network-like power law effect.
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Replying to @vgr @parresianz
And you’re wrong about statistics too actually, there’s several hundred, which is enough for a lot of questions. And definitely worth attention for a lot more reasons than the one you seem to care about.
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Several hundred seems on the small end. Is that including billionaire families?
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Replying to @TieshunR @parresianz
Google says there are about 2200 billionaires as of 2018
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