Conservatives enjoy casting George Soros as the
super-evil maniacally-messianic billionaire tweaking U.S. politics and
machinating the downfall of American culture like a sinister marionette string-master.
For liberals, their super-evil maniacally-messianic billionaire tweaking U.S. politics
and machinating the downfall of American culture like a sinister marionette string-master
is actually a pair of brothers with the last name of Koch. I’d like to try to
put this all in humble perspective, and since I’m currently skimming a bio of
George Soros, let me put it all in terms relative to him.
A quick Google inquiry tells me that Soros has a net
worth of slightly under $25,000,000,000.
Let’s round up and proclaim the unit of 1 Soros = $25
billion.
His diametric foes in the super-evil blah blah blah
category, Bill and Charles Koch, are each worth, from what I understand, 1.75
Soros (for a combined 3.5 Soros score). So the conservative super-evil blah
blah blah outnumbers the liberal counterpart seven to two. That should give
some perspective and some comfort to those who fear the palindromed philanthropist philosopher
money market maestro from Hungary.
For a business world / world headlines comparison, the
following clock in at
Mark Zuckerberg – 2.2 Soros
Warren Buffet – 2.7 Soros
Bill Gates – 3.1 Soros
Our wonderful 2016 Presidential candidates yield
Donald Trump – 0.2 Soros
Hillary Clinton – 0.002 Soros
Though who really knows for certain with those two.
Finally, in the interest of full if slightly anonymous
disclosure, I offer myself, Hopper. Now, to be truthfully honest, I have no
idea of my own net worth. Living in a blue state with two children yet to attend
college, house poor and bouncing from one job to the next (when not unemployed),
it ain’t much. But if I had to throw out a figure, with a few seconds quick
calculation of what I can see with my eyes around me, I’d put it as …
0.000003 Soros
Yikes! Better finish that book on Soros and invest
some take-home pay …
There. Perspective.
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