Talk:Billionaire

message: From the first paragraph: "According to Forbes Magazine, the year 2021 saw not only the biggest increase in billionaires around the world..." Either this sentence is wrong or my hangover is worse than I thought.
71.7.53.13 (talk) 19:34, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  year 2021? 

message: Why is a billionaire only one who is worth US$1bn?  Take Gina Rinehart, for instance – she recently became worth over a billion dollars AUD.  Is she not a billionaire, then? --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 23:39, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  USD? 

message: Materials were copied and pasted from http://www.forbes.com/lists/home.jhtml?passListId=10&passYear=2000&passListType=Person into the article by User:Hoof38.  I have reverted prior to that version. --tomf688 (talk - email) 01:08, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyighted materials 

message: Given that inflation and economic growth keep making the wealth of the richest
human higher in nominal dollars over time, when can we expect to see the first
trillionaire? This guy
says in the year 2038. However, the party might end sometime after the onset
of peak oil, unless the economy shifts largely to information rather than
energy, and economic growth becomes tied to Moore's Law. --Teratornis 16:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  First trillionaire? 

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message: The page on Heshen says that he was worth (in a contemporary estimate) 1.1 billion taels of silver at the time when he was killed. Would this make him the first known billionaire? Note that this is worth about $20 billion in today's currency. Qqwref (talk) 04:13, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  18th century billionaire? 

message: According to the current article definition, almost everyone in Zimbabwe (population 13 million) is a billionaire.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mamarazzi (talk • contribs) 22:00, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe|Zimbabwe]] 

message: This isn't much of an article.  For more information, write about the process people take to become a billionaire, traits or activities of billionaires, and analysis of what it means to be a billionaire emotionally, economically, socially and psychologically, from reputable sources.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.28.164.47 (talk) 22:54, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article 

message: There is quite a big difference between being a billionaire and being a trillionaire.--CafeDelKevin (talk) 07:00, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In countries that use the long scale number naming system, what is someone who has at least a milliard (a thousand million) units of currency is called?Turm (talk) 13:22, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does trillionaire redirect here? 

message: Umm... There's some random Spanish words in the third paragraph on the page, right at the end. "Caro es senda trolaza y le encanta el pedazo", to be exact. Normally, I'd just delete it, but I'm afraid that it might actually have some meaning in the article. Google Translate translates it as "trolaza is expensive path and loves the piece," which makes no sense, but maybe someone who actually speaks Spanish can translate it or condemn it as gibberish. Thanks! 
EDIT: This was deleted as I wrote this. Never mind.209.206.225.189 (talk) 01:51, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird Spanish words in opening paragraphs... 

message: the actual gdp for mexico in 2010 was a trillion US dollsrs so i think they were mistaken but could you guys please check  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guslb12 (talk • contribs) 06:48, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It meant a long-scale billion, which is equivalent to a trillion. Michaelmas1957 09:12, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  it said a billion dollar was the gpd of mexico in 2010 

message: Are Foundations relevant for Billionaires? It depends on how much they remember their parents,  grandparents, school and college, and how much tax they want to pay. AesopMuse (talk) 16:12, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foundations 

message: has been proposed to be renamed to , for the discussion, see talk:Black billionaires -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 06:13, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{noredirect|Black billionaires}} 

message: "Number of billionaires in 2015: 2,473" in: http://www.billionairecensus.com/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.247.242.39 (talk) 13:13, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  2015: 2,473 ? 

message: It's not billionaires fault that most people are losers. This article should focus on the billionaire aspect of billionaires, not everyone else. If you are going to include that why not include that the US government is 18 trillion dollars in debt? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.76.99.2 (talk) 16:09, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Income inequality inappropriate for this article 

message: in a country which is 70% christian, how many billionaires are christian?
there is a page for black billionairs, we need to link black and christian billionaires to this page also.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.234.105 (talk) 13:37, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  christian abillionaires 

message: An edit explaining (and documenting) selection bias in the Forbes list of billionaires was removed without explanation or discussion on the talk page.  The edit also removed discussion of taxation and billionaires.
The sources are academic articles and publications in major newspapers.
Given the lack of explanation for the removal, I plan to revert the changes.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wt984688 (talk • contribs) 17:03, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selection bias in Forbes list of Billionaires 

message: The following paragraph needs clarification:
::According to a 2016 Oxfam report, the wealth of the poorest 95% dropped by 38% between 2010 and 2015, thanks to an increase in the global population of 400 million.[1] In the same period, the wealth of the richest 62 people between the World's Billionaires increased by $500bn (£350bn) to $1.76tn. This number[clarification needed] has fallen dramatically from 388 as recently as 2010. More recently, in 2017 an Oxfam report noted that just eight billionaires have as much net worth as "half the human race".[2][3] But the Oxfam report has been criticized for considering debt as negative wealth, which leads to wealthy people with large amounts of debt to be considered poor or not wealthy.[4]
The problem here is that I am pretty sure that the number referred to is "62" but if so then the text reads/interprets something like the following:
* ... the wealth of the richest 62 people ... increased by $500bn ... (2016)
* ... the wealth of the richest 388 people ... increased by $500bn ... (2010)
I also notice there is an infographic nearby that references both these numbers but it does not refer to these as "the richest NNN people" but rather as "The number of billionaires that, with assets combined, would own as much money as half the world population." 172.88.130.119 (talk) 05:04, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification requested. "This number" makes no sense as written. 

message: in the german language wikipedia, there is a rule that there should be only one link on the same term
in this article is under Statistics the link to Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates 3 times activated, to Carlos Slim only one time - why ?
--Über-Blick (talk) 23:08, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: First billionaire 2601:41:C07F:16A0:554F:7965:42B3:6E38 (talk) 13:52, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mansa Musa 

message: A few days ago a submarine went down to the Titanic. It was destroyed. On board the submarine was a British billionaire ( and other rich people ).
Should the article be changed? The number of billionaires should be lowered now. 49.178.158.133 (talk) 04:28, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Wikipedia:NOTNEWS Tobus (talk) 04:37, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Titanic 

message: Two of the graphics currently in this article don't even mention billionaires, but rather point out income inequality. They do not contain a separate category for billionaires, instead grouping them together with millionaires. Millionaires are a separate article, so these graphics are not relevant to this article. Additionally, the existing income inequality section is not necessary, as the Distribution of wealth and Economic inequality articles already exist. The amount of wealth controlled by the richest 10 billionaires doesn't directly relate to the concept of billionaires and would be more relevant for  other articles. Cyifmae (talk) 18:12, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue Weight on Wealth Inequality