Who wants to be a billionaire?

joanlawson

According to the list published by the Forbes magazine, there are 1,210 dollar billionaires in the world - the most it has ever named. At the top, for the second year running, is the Mexican telecoms mogul Carlos Slim, with an astonishing personal wealth of 74 billion dollars. It's been a good year for Mr Slim, who added 20.5 billion dollars to his fortune in the last 12 months alone.

That means he made more than 56 million dollars every day in 2010. :eek: :shock: :shock: He's even richer than Bill Gates :shock:

I can't get my head round anyone having so much money. It seems obscene when there is so much poverty in the world, and I wonder what good they do with it. It seems that the rich are getting richer while the rest of us are getting poorer.

Joan

joanlawson

It's difficult to imagine one billion, but some people demonstrated it by using cheesy wotsits. They estimate that you would need at least 772 white vans to move 1 billion wotsits. It does give you an idea of the vast wealth of these people.

tjt6768

That is the most bizarre and obscure way that I have ever heard of anything being visually demostrated :eek: I bet it was done by a couple of stoners who happened to have the munchies so bad they could eat a billion wotsits :shock:

NinaKKang

Apparently, the rich have been stung by the recession too... I can just imagine a billionnaire losing a couple of million quid... my heart bleeds...

Somehow, I just can't sympathise??

Nxx

mellman01

Humans single trait that no other animal on this plant has so badly, greed it will be the end of us for sure, I'f I had that amount of cash I'd have a big island with own design eco house just to see if I coud do it, oh and a security system to keep all the worlds idiots out, I'd bank enough so I'd be self sufficent then I'd set up a charity with the rest that I would manage myself and develope as many eco systems as I could on island I would own, sort of like arcs aorund the world, nature needs more help than humans, we are a bit daft and keep breeding we wont stop either not until we've destroyed our own enviroment due to utter greed.
PS I like wotsits Joan!.

NinaKKang

Blimey, Mel, you're so sorted out. Can I come and live with you in your cool house

Nxx

need me bed

I'm with Mellman on this one too!

I love the wotsits idea, wonder how long it would take me to eat them...

Greed has a lot to answer for i can't abide the greed in some people...

I was born with nothing and i still have most of it left!!

mirabella

ALL THE BILLIONS still can't buy your health,or take away the pain it brings and you would never be sure who your true friends are Mirabella

joanlawson

mellman01 wrote:

Humans single trait that no other animal on this plant has so badly, greed it will be the end of us for sure, I'f I had that amount of cash I'd have a big island with own design eco house just to see if I coud do it, oh and a security system to keep all the worlds idiots out, I'd bank enough so I'd be self sufficent then I'd set up a charity with the rest that I would manage myself and develope as many eco systems as I could on island I would own, sort of like arcs aorund the world, nature needs more help than humans, we are a bit daft and keep breeding we wont stop either not until we've destroyed our own enviroment due to utter greed.
PS I like wotsits Joan!.

A sort of world-wide Mellman Utopia :!: I like it :!:

joanlawson

mirabella wrote:

ALL THE BILLIONS still can't buy your health,or take away the pain it brings and you would never be sure who your true friends are Mirabella

Quite true, Mirabella. Some things money can't buy. These super-rich people end up living in heavily guarded places because they never feel truly secure, and as you say, you wouldn't know who you could trust.

livinglegend

You can be rich and in pain with physios, nurses, etc. and as much help on immediate call as possible. Or you can be poor and in pain and treated on the NHS and go without everything you really need. Choices, choices????

Pull up the drawbridge, Jeeves. What's for tea?