With the Internet, you can now be famous, without being rich.
Many of the truly rich people are quite anonymous. The billionaires you read about are really just the tip of the iceberg.
Many of the truly rich people are quite anonymous. The billionaires you read about are really just the tip of the iceberg.
Are you trying to tell me that there are people out there worth more than Elon Musk who are not throwing money at political campaigns, funding mass projects or cultural pursuits? Because, yes, its possible for someone who is worth say, half a billion or even up to maybe 10 billion dollars or so to stay out of public life, but at a certain degree of wealth that wealth becomes institutional and closely tied to political power, so it becomes functionally impossible to remain fully anonymous. What state, what government would allow a private citizen worth so much money to go untaxed, without that person somehow being tied to the government? Or are you saying that the state, which commands use of force and violence, would not use that force to extract wealth from those who are not apart, directly, of its apparatus?
A couple months ago, I was at a stoplight, and this kid in an old beater was in the left-turn lane, to my left.
He had a steadycam rig in the passenger seat, and was nattering on about something.
Outside of that Twitch leak some years ago, is there any reliable data on how much content creators make?
I suspect that the number of folks that need bodyguards, but can't hire them, is nonzero.
I suspect a majority of folks on this forum make over six figures.
Not sure how many of us can afford bodyguards, though. Bodyguards make a lot. I know a couple.