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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Do you think Americas richest people are worth?
Here is the list of the Medina 59.0 51 1 William Gates III, WA Microsoft 2 Warren Buffett 52.0 77 Omaha, NE Berkshire Hathaway 3 Sheldon Adelson 28.0 74 Las Vegas, NV casinos, hotels 4 Lawrence Ellison 26.0 63 Redwood City, CA Oracle 5 Sergey Brin 18.5 34 Palo Alto, CA Google 5 Larry Page 18.5 34 San Francisco, CA Google 7 Kirk Kerkorian 18.0 90 Los Angeles, CA investments, casinos 8 Michael Dell 17.2 42 Austin, TX Dell 9 Charles Koch 17.0 71 Wichita, KS oil, commodities 9 David Koch 17.0 67 New York, NY oil, commodities 11 Paul Allen 16.8 54 Mercer Island, WA Microsoft, investments 12 Christy Walton & Family 16.3 52 Jackson, WY Wal-Mart inheritance 12 Jim Walton 16.3 59 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart 12 S Robson Walton 16.3 63 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart 15 Alice Walton 16.1 58 in Fort Worth, TX Wal-Mart 16 Steven Ballmer 15.2 51 Hunts Point, WA Microsoft 17 Abigail Johnson 15.0 45 BO
Worthy of what? worthy of the capital under their control? Depends. No Dell, Gates and Allen deserves his billions for his contribution to computer industries? Or Walton deserve the wealth of the father, created from Wal-Mart? And some of the controversies over how they have enriched their dignity no play it? Yes / No? No matter. They have to if we think are worthy or not.
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