Here’s something that every single billionaire on the planet will agree with.  The Forbes Billionaire list is a must-read for them, to see where their stacks of billions matches up with their fellow uber rich comrades. 

The list came out Tuesday, and you can be certain of two things: 

  1. All 2,755 on this year’s list have already checked to see where they stand.
  2. Every member of this fortune fraternity has called either their accountant or their publicist, ticked off at their ranking. 

We dug deep into the list to find the most interesting morsels of information and found out that becoming a billionaire is one of the toughest things in the world to do,,, but it’s easier now than ever if you have what it takes…

While the richest of the rich seemed to do pretty well during the pandemic there is one job that is 100% hazardous to your net worth.  Being President of the United States. 

One of the most interesting morsels of info from the newly released Forbes Billionaire List is the fact that Donald Trump took a mighty fall, losing $1.1 billion of net worth since he became President in 2017, and falling 298 spots down the list. 

Forbes decided to play a little Monday morning quarterback with Trump’s finances, and reported that if he “had sold everything on Day 1, paid the maximum capital-gains taxes on the sales, then put the proceeds into a conflict-free fund tracking the S&P 500, Trump would have ended his presidency an estimated $1.6 billion richer than he is today.”

Well, he didn’t do that, and his net worth sits at $2.4 billion, down from $3.5 billion in 2017. 

For every wannabe billionaire out there hustling day in and day out, there’s hope for you to one day join this list, when you consider that there are a total of 493 new additions to the list. That’s 1.35 new billionaires being added every day!

There are people that worked their butts off to get on this list, like media mogul Tyler Perry, a new addition along with Whitney Wolfe-Herd, the founder of Bumble, Kim Kardashian, and Kanye West. 

Some new additions didn’t have to work to get on the list. Yeah, we’re talking about Miriam Adelson, who inherited $38 billion when her casino mogul husband Sheldon Adelson passed away. 

250 people who were once billionaires but then fell off the list, re-emerged in 2021. 

Of the 2,755 members of the World’s Billionaire List, 86% saw their fortunes grow this past year, and all told, the combined net worth of every member comes to a staggering $13.1 trillion, which is up over $5 trillion from last year. 

A year ago there was one person worth north of $100 billion, now there are four. 

Warren Buffett’s net worth grew by an incredible $28.5 billion over the past year, yet he somehow fell out of the top 5 of the rankings for the first time in 28 years. 

The U.S. rules the list, with 724 total billionaires.  China is coming on strong with 698, and look out for India, which put 140 members on the list. 

Beijing passed New York City for mot billionaires in the world. 

Is a college degree necessary to get on this list? Hardly. The youngest self-made billionaire is 26-year old Austin Russell, who dropped out of Stanford to start his Luminar Technologies.He’s currently worth over $2 billion. 

Kevin David Lehmann isn’t even in college, and does not need to go if he doesn’t want to. The 18-year old from Germany inherited $3.3 billion from his father’s drug store chain. 

23 billionaires died since this time last year, which contributed to many of the new names on the list. 

So there you go. If you want to be on this list next year, figure out a fool proof plan to inherit the money, work your ass off and take a company public, or just ask Larry Ellison or MacKenzie Scott for a loan. 

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