This reply made everybody laugh. Of course nobody took the kid seriously. These cybernutcakes couldn't even carry on rational conversations with people who only spoke English, but that was okay because they were reinventing the world we live in, and re-naming the components therein to suit themselves. In almost no time at all, the same people who laughed and patted Billy Gates on the head when he said he wanted to be the richest man in the world, were writing him letters to ask him if he remembered them, and importuning for employment in his far-flung and burgeoning enterprises. Sometimes it happens like that.
Wealth tends to bring buttoned-down responsibilities.
That same week, he was authoritatively reported to have a million dollars. This was just the beginning. Right along the lines in which Horatio Alger had spelled it out, except the Alger program was much too conservative. There's no place to go after you're the richest man on earth. Then it was Thailand.