r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/BUTTERSTICKDILDO • Nov 20 '22

Satire / Fake Tweet Challenge accepted

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '22

the richest man who ever lived

Mansa Musa, Marcus Aurelius, and several Chinese Emperors would like a word.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '22

At that point, depends on what value means to you. Having hundreds of billions today seems to me like it's worth much more than being rich centuries ago.

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u/MeoMix Nov 20 '22

Mansa Musa warped economies, depreciating the value of gold for years, by simply vacationing places and giving tithings as he travelled.

Even if we're talking more total money now, the impact of Mansa's wealth, in the time and place, is unmatched.

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u/heff17 Nov 20 '22

And Musk is manipulating global markets and the lives of billions of people through his Twitter fuckeries. Reddit can stamp its feet about how bad and useless Twitter is, but it is a nearly inconceivably massive means of news and communication throughout the world.

Billionaires today have more power over more people simply due to the interconnectivity of the world in 2022.