New Richest Person On Earth

TheDude · 03-10-2010, 07:10 PM

worlds-billionaires-2010: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

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Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth

Surf2Live · 03-10-2010, 07:19 PM

Old news, amazing nonetheless

ASKA · 03-10-2010, 07:24 PM

107000000 KPs
267500000 phantoms
23777778 ducks...

Dr. Isotope · 03-10-2010, 09:37 PM

Seeing that the average household income in Mexico is about $14,000 USD, and the median in the U.S. is $52,000, does that make Helu's fortune more or less impressive? I would guess less, as he's clearly showing that the rich really do get richer, while everyone else gets sh*t on. Speaking of which, you'd think he could put a few bucks toward the fecal snow problem over in Mexico City.

dauntless15 · 03-11-2010, 12:21 AM

think about the problems that could be solved with maybe 10 billion dollars . i know that to drill a well in africa cost 5000 bucks to supply clean water to over 400 people for the next 20 years . . thats just a little idea .

T-MAC · 03-11-2010, 12:56 AM

Man, those numbers are staggering.

Meph · 03-11-2010, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by dauntless15

think about the problems that could be solved with maybe 10 billion dollars . i know that to drill a well in africa cost 5000 bucks to supply clean water to over 400 people for the next 20 years . . thats just a little idea .

Or people could not live in the desert...

souz4402 · 03-11-2010, 01:40 AM

greedy people....zzzzzzzzz

ConradNorCal · 03-11-2010, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by TheDude

worlds-billionaires-2010: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

He is such a crook....he got super rich by getting his other rich buddies together and forcing/bribing the Mexican gov. to privatize the national phone service, not to mention many other shady deals

Meph · 03-11-2010, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ConradNorCal

He is such a crook....he got super rich by getting his other rich buddies together and forcing/bribing the Mexican gov. to privatize the national phone service, not to mention many other shady deals

So pretty much he got filthy rich like 99% of all the other people who got filthy rich.

You see a person who is abundantly wealthy and they have very good odds that they got that way through some very shady (probably illegal) practices.

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Dr. Isotope Call me... Cardgage. Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: SoCal, USA!!	Seeing that the average household income in Mexico is about $14,000 USD, and the median in the U.S. is $52,000, does that make Helu's fortune more or less impressive? I would guess less, as he's clearly showing that the rich really do get richer, while everyone else gets sh*t on. Speaking of which, you'd think he could put a few bucks toward the fecal snow problem over in Mexico City.