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alex_young on March 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Perso...

Good point. One family that is directly measurable however: offspring of Sam Walton. Bill G is a distant second by that yard stick: https://www.forbes.com/profile/walton-1/

jjeaff on March 29, 2017 [–]

And that's why the individual Walton's are usually on the list. They usually occupy around 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th places.

astrodust on March 29, 2017 | [–]

When those fortunes split 3-5 ways again they'll be diluted down to 80th or so.

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