Who was the richest person in history?

Who was the richest person in history?

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Solomon.

Probably some 200 IQ user from Veeky Forums

Probably that one African KANG or John D. Rockefeller.

>literally Schlomo

God

>white = rich

What did they mean by that?

>Thinking some nobody from africa or a dude ringing out the grease from his hair and selling it could compete with the wealthiest shekelburg of all time.

The Lydian king Croesus was so rich that his name became a byword for extravagant wealth.

MARCVS.LICINIVS.CRASSVS

dunno about all time but currently(at least if you believe this random article)
time.com/money/4641093/vladimir-putin-net-worth/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Fugger

>the kang has so much bling he destroys an entire economy

Probably Rockefeller

That rich fugger is responsible for preventing the western empire from being rebuilt under Francis I.
What a German.

Me lmao

>be fucking loaded black king
>go up to Europe to show off in front of white people
>throw money around, etc.
>white people all like "sheeeit nigga, daaaamn"
>feel good about self
>go home
>collapse societally

Augustus, Egypt was his personal property in a way exceeding that of a monarch.

The bankers

>(((Jakob))
>German

pick one

George Bailey

Mansa Musa

Probably Rockefeller.

He was worth around 180 billion in modern monies.

Augustus Caesar literally owned Egypt. As in, it was his personal property. Not part of the empire he ran, which accounted for 25-30% of world GDP at the time.

>minor order and canon under the catholic church
>jewish

Probably the unnamed Anatolian warlord whose tomb was found to contain more processed gold than was though to exist in the world at that time.

who gives a shit when theres no liquid wealth

das rite

Augustus Caesar by a long shot.

He was worth 4.6 trillion
Mansa Munsa, for comparison, was only worth around 460-600 billion.
King Solomon is the only one that compares to Augustus, but even he was only worth 2.2 trillion.

That being said.. There is an argument to be made that Josef Stalin was richer.
As he had total control of USSR economy, basically making him own the money. If you translate the USSR GDP/production into modern money, it equals over 7.6 trillion dollars.

Define rich.

liquid assets

How does only one person get that amount of money?

Not hard when you have a near complete monopoly on one of the most important resources.

>A liquid asset is an asset that can be converted into cash quickly, with minimal impact to the price received in the open market.
That cuts out Kings, Empires, most businesses..
Most likely some drug lord then.

Super wealth is not stored in liquid assets.

That's a pretty idiotic definition.

>It is believed that Crassus expanded his personal fortune to 170 million sesterces, whilePliny surmised his fortune to be valued even higher, at 200 million sesterces. This would place Crassus's net worth equal to the total annual budget of the Roman treasury.

>Crassus has often been listed among the "wealthiest individuals in history", although depending on the estimate of the "adjusted value" of a Romansesterce, his net worth may also be placed in the range of US$200 million to US$20 billion.

>(((Jakob))
>German
You can pick both actually

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Then that argument would apply to modern day China, which is a ridiculous claim

I can't wait for Xi to claim Mandate.

>in the range of US$200 million to US$20 billion.
To translate that means:
"We have no fucking idea but here's a meaningless ballpark estimate so you'll stop annoying us".

When you get a range that wide it is less than meaningless.

What about a king who gets to levy taxes on a extremely lucrative salt for gold trade

Nope Stalin was not the planning bureau

He looks like a giant doofus. No wonder Caesar kicked this cuck's ass.

Cyrus the Great.

Crassus

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He went on Hajj to Mecca, not Europe.

Where are you pulling these numbers out of?

Because no way Solomon was actually that wealthy, sounds like someone actually believing what the Bible says about him.

This

Augustus Caesar was so wealthy that his private court essentially counted as a state within a state, a shadow government preforming roles that stodgy old conservatives in the senate couldn’t bring themselves to preform not pay for. The breadbasket of the empire was literally his own private property.

Even Crassus, one of the proportionately richest men in history, never came close to sheer percentage of the total economy that Augustus did

Egyptians > Romans

Who and when?
All in all that's one hell of legacy.

Dunno where that guy got Solomon, but the rest of the numbers are basically extrapolated by counting what percent of the national/global wealth the person had at his peak prosperity and then adjusting based on inflation over the years. There's been a study done about that.

And yeah, it makes Augustus the richest motherfucker who ever lived by a long, long shot. Munsa comes in a far second, but even then the usual suspects that people think of when they think "richest ever" like Carnegie, Rockefeller, etc. were generally several times less wealthy.

john astor
died in titanic
claimed to have stood against federal reserve
died in titanic with two other ppl claimed to have stood against federal reserve while morgan cancelled his ticket just before leaving

Rothschild

gahddam my nigga mansa munsa really be ouchea grindin like dat. keep flexxin on dem whyte folcc brutha

I read it in (iirc) a Smithsonian article like seven years ago but I can't find it OL.

Satoshi Nakamoto

Eleanor of Aquitaine
>not kidding

In addition to whatever wealth he got from being from a wealthy family and being in charge of the Roman Empire, the entirety of Egypt was Augustus' personal property so he probably beats out anyone like Rockefeller or Mansa Munsa.

Sanat Kumara, leader of the Great White Lodge of Masters aka the Illuminati

Adam. Owned the entire world and everything in it.

wouldn't this make him one of the most virtuous Muslim ever?

Jeff Bezos.

Augustus might have been proportionally the richest man to ever live, relative to his contemporaries, but the actual economic output he was capable of obtaining is a mere fraction of what modern billionaires can obtain. A single man and some machines can produce more food, and more varied food, than a hundred men in Augustus's time. A single truck operated by one guy can ferry more goods in a week than a dozen horse drawn carts operate by thirty guys.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_economy#Gross_domestic_product
Estimates of the Roman Empire's GDP in modern terms converted to 1990 US dollars range from $25 billion to $50 billion. Of which 5% was extracted by the central government. Augustus could've owned a quarter of the entire Empire's GDP and still be poorer than modern no names like Iris Fontbona.

Musa is also bullshit. Musa's Empire itself wouldn't make him considerably wealthier than most contemporary major monarchs, so it's all down to his gold. Mali TODAY with vastly superior technology to its 14th century ancestor and many times as many people only produces 50 tons a year... and is considered a major exporter. That's only $2.8 billion a year at 2016 prices. There's no way Musa's Empire even produced close to that much, and only a fraction of its production would be personally his.
businessinsider.com/this-is-what-315-billion-worth-of-gold-looks-like-2012-12
reuters.com/article/mali-gold-idUSL8N14L0C420160101

Then the real answer is the king of Saudi Arabia.

King Salman is only worth $17 billion. He's obscenely wealthy but he doesn't literally own his country.

This.
A bulldozer is worth 2 dozen slaves.

John D. Rockefeller was worth an equivalent of 300 billion in todays value so 3 times what Bezos is right now.

Octavianus was the richest though

I could be wrong but isn’t Crassus’ wealth a bit overblown? Yeah he was rich as fuck with his fire fighter jewery but how could that exceed the profits of Caesar enslaving the Gauls or Lucullus or Pompey’s plunder of the east?

That guy bought out the entire hotel for 5 days during my training
Those saudis are obsessed with gold and terrible perfumes

Bogdanovs have unlimited bitcoins and all the money on mars.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but emptying your country's coffers into your pocket (like Mansa Musa did) doesn't really count as wealth. If we're talking about heads of state being entitled to all their wealth in the nation, then Genghis Khan would probably be number 1. If we count only personal fortunes, then Augustus would be number 1.

The queen of Britain

Mansa Musa is the best

How much of the economy does Jeff Bezos have, by comparison?

How rich would he be if he was proportionally richer, too? Wouldn’t he basically own half the planet?

The world economy is worth about $76T, $100G is about .13% of that.

This but sub Bezos for Rockefeller. His net worth in 2017 dollars is equivalent to $334 billion due to how much of a monopoly he had on oil (Standard Oil was 90% of the US oil market) in the early 20th century United States. Not even modern billionaires could compare.

>makes money saving whales in the process

Heh

Why do you actually do with that much of money? I can't really imagine

Wasn't Cicero also loaded? Or am I just conflating him woth Crassus?

Political speculation

He was by the standards of the average Roman, but not by the standards of the average Roman aristocrat. In fact he described himself as “a painfully honest man” for not bilking his constituents out of everything they’re worth

>Musa made his pilgrimage between 1324–1325.[18][19] His procession reportedly included 60,000 men, including 12,000 slaves[20] who each carried 1.8 kg (4 lb) of gold bars and heralds dressed in silks who bore gold staffs, organized horses, and handled bags. Musa provided all necessities for the procession, feeding the entire company of men and animals.[17] Those animals included 80 camels which each carried 23–136 kg (50–300 lb) of gold dust. Musa gave the gold to the poor he met along his route. Musa not only gave to the cities he passed on the way to Mecca, including Cairo and Medina, but also traded gold for souvenirs.

Didn't the Belgian king personally own Congo or something?

wouldnt it be the owner or something of the VoC/dutch east india company since its the biggest cumpany ever?

wikiwand.com/en/Dutch_East_India_Company

Leopold II and the Congo Free State. Look it up if you enjoy studying a mandelbrot of human misery and suffering

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