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　　Dostoyevsky said, "Money is freedom that is minted." That old adage lives on.

　　A person is financially independent and no longer has to rely on others to live. After achieving financial freedom, the constraints on the body will naturally be reduced, which is also a very simple reason.

　　But it is one thing to have money, but the money-worshippers who pursue money are not thankful. In America, it has become politically correct to ridicule people who love money. If you express your love of money ideas online, or show off everywhere, you will be attacked by the crowd.

　　Because of this, The 400 Richest People In America is released every year. While Internet residents are enjoying the news, they are also eating melons to see who is still alive, who has been kicked out, and who has returned. It is the fresh blood of the new entrants.

　　This list seems to be "Congratulations to this group of people who have achieved all the freedoms that wealth gives, including the freedom to be examined and discussed by everyone."

　　Number one on the list, so what?

　　Not surprisingly, Musk replaced Bezos, who has dominated the list for four consecutive years, with a fortune of $251 billion, ranking first for the first time.

　　Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffy, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Steve Ballmer ranked 3 to 8.

Source: Forbes

　　It's been a crazy year for Musk, and one that's getting more and more aggressive.

　　After he became the first billionaire to be worth $300 billion last November, he was revealed to have secretly given birth to twins with an executive at his brain-computer interface company Neuralink. In May, he was accused of sexually harassing a SpaceX flight attendant.

　　Recently, it has been even more turbulent. Because of his lawsuit with Twitter, several months of text messages and emails between him and his friends were collected and released. This 151-page redacted document records the world's richest man for several months. When he came to his private life, the media started to laugh at him as being more of a "stupid", and the myth of a carefully created genius was shattered.

Source: Atlantic

　　Well, you see, even if the wealth is number one in the world and the wealth is absolutely free, it is inevitable that the private information in the mobile phone will be released to the public and the public execution will end.

　　But this may not be a big deal for Musk, who is keen to tweet. He was also immersed in the joy of the Tesla robot release, and moved forward for his lofty space dream, and occasionally quoted some philosophical pictures to reply to people who laughed at him. If you don't buy Twitter anymore, you can still post whatever you want, he is him, "he does his own thing".

Source: Twitter

　　The market is not good, Flop is in the end

　　After four years at the top of the list, Bezos has finally become No. 2 this year. Mainly because of the sluggish Amazon stock price this year, down 27%, which wiped off $50 billion from the net worth of the former richest man.

Source: Forbes

　　Bezos has not been idle since stepping down as Amazon's CEO last year and taking a back seat.

　　In addition to the media spotlight of high-profile dating and showing affection, he started to make a number of investments through the family office fund Bezos Expeditions, such as giving unlimited financial support to Altos Labs, the world's best anti-aging company, and a16z fund. Digital media company Overtime Sports invested $500 million, and Hollywood actor Xiao Lizi invested $100 million in Wildtype, a biotechnology company that uses fish cells to grow artificial salmon meat.

　　Even changing the stingy style of the past, Bezos also donated $100 million to the Obama Foundation, which is also the largest donation the foundation has received; on the same day, he also donated $166 million to the New York University Medical Center. He also pledged to donate $10 billion over eight years to 2030, and to make efforts to improve the climate through his Bezos Earth Fund.

　　But in addition to these, some of his other operations are still criticized constantly, which has never improved his online reputation. For example, he spent 500 million US dollars to buy a 127-meter-long super yacht, and even built a platform for helicopter take-off and landing on the yacht to facilitate the "crash landing of love" by his girlfriend, Sanchez, who loves to fly. Due to its size, shipbuilders had to demand the removal of a historic bridge in Rotterdam to allow ships to leave. After being jointly opposed by local residents, the yacht was finally towed away under fierce resistance, and the bridge was saved from being demolished.

Source: Twitter

　　Another person whose net worth has shrunk significantly is, of course, Mark Zuckerberg.

　　He dropped to No. 11 this year with a fortune of $57.7 billion, roughly the same amount Bezos has evaporated this year.

Source: Forbes

　　At this time two years ago, Zuckerberg's fortune surpassed the $100 billion mark for the first time, making him the fourth-richest person in the world. Today, nearly $74 billion in wealth has evaporated as Meta's stock price has fallen 57 percent. Xiao Zha's net worth has plummeted, and along with his reputation, it has also declined.

　　But his reputation declined not because he fell out of the top 5 of the rich list, but more because the "tech upstart" personality collapsed over the years. Not only did his expression become more and more AI, but he was also bombed with luxury and extravagant ostentation. Criticizing "leaving privacy", and then changing its name to play "Escape Plan",... Internet users seem to witness "the boy who slays the dragon eventually becomes a dragon", from a cute tech nerd to a "monopoly madman" to today's meme" Emoji Pack", his performance in the past ten years has made viewers feel that it is difficult to describe.

　　Forbes concluded that the biggest loser this year was Zuckerberg, who dropped out of the top 10 for the first time since 2014.

　　Still, at 38, Zuckerberg remains the youngest person on the front row of this list. There is still a lot of room for his future development. Will he continue to go down or turn around against the wind? Time will give its answer.

　　Change and change, the strong stay strong

　　In addition to the "old people" on the rich list such as Gates, Larry Ellison, Buffett, and Larry Page, former President Trump returned to the Forbes 400 rich list this year because his personal wealth reached $3.2 billion. .

　　Sergey Brin, No. 7 on the rich list, just announced in September that he would donate $50 million over five years to help find a cure for bipolar disorder, also known as bipolar disorder, but people are more What is more concerned is that the gossip that Musk's second marriage has broken down due to Musk's involvement has not been broken.

Source: Zaker

　　The richest woman on this list is No. 13 Julia Koch (widow of the late Koch Industries major shareholder David Koch) family, who inherited a 42% stake in Koch Industries after her husband's death and is now the President of the David Koch Foundation, which focuses on philanthropy.

Source: Forbes

　　Bezos' ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, ranked 18. She is also preparing for her second divorce recently. The reason for the divorce is unknown.

Source: Forbes

　　The richest self-made woman is No. 51 Diane Hendricks, co-founder of building materials distributor ABC Supply. The company, one of the largest wholesale distributors of roofing, siding and windows in the United States, was founded in Wisconsin in 1982 by Diane and her late husband Ken, who has been running it since Ken's death.

Source: Forbes

　　Among the newcomers to this year's list are oil billionaire Autry Stephens, who is richer than 2021 due to the recent surge in oil prices; Chinese-American Liao Kaiyuan, grocery wholesaler and AI robot billionaire Rick Cohen, racing legend Characters Roger Penske et al.

　　The youngest billionaire in the top 400 is a 29-year-old Chinese youth named Gary Wang. He is the co-founder and CTO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which was founded in 2019 and is today one of the leading exchanges for buying cryptocurrency derivatives. And Gary is a low-key person. Not only does he only use his back to show people on his official website, he is also the only person on the Forbes list without a profile picture.

Source: FTX

　　Another young man who is one year older than Gary and just turned 30 this year, Sam Bankman-Fried, is ranked 41st on the rich list and the CEO of the exchange FTX. The young man in the cryptocurrency space, known for his political donations, expressed his willingness to give up 99 percent of his income to donate more than $10 billion to political causes in the future.

Source: Forbes

　　There are talented people in the country, each leading the way for several years. In the era of new talents and strong men, few people know that Forbes magazine is 105 years old.

　　In the years since the Forbes list was released, from the rise of the original "American Dream" to the "barometer of the American economy", to what is now called the "evil force" with a high concentration of capitalist wealth, this reflects every People's attitude towards wealth accumulation in the era.

　　The Forbes family once admitted to the media that we only produce the list, and we can’t decide whether the people on the list violate the system and the law. We only report and are not responsible for telling them what to do.

　　How to measure the value of the list?

　　"There is nothing more vulgar than inquiring into other people's private property in polite and high society circles, and Forbes has done that and turned it into a wrestling contest." One biography of the Forbes family the writer said so.

　　Perhaps wealth wrestling is what some people who are keen to pursue wealth care about, but this is not necessarily a reflection of the value of wealth to society.

　　Interestingly, Forbes this year scaled the generosity of each billionaire from a "1" (those who have given less than 1% of their wealth to date) to a "5" (those who have given away at least 20% of their wealth). More than half gave away less than 5% of their wealth, and only nine of the 400 richest people on the list scored a 5.