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SUBMAN1 · 03-06-07, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by NEON DEON

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

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Originally Posted by Chaotic42

According to this site: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi

He would be worth $19,683,067,379.12 today. Bill Gates is worth $82,000,000,000 or more than four times Rockefeller at his death.

The study above is based on GDP or how much you could own of the entire production of the country. Bill Gates can't hold a candle to that.

-S

The population of the US now is 300 million.

What was the population when J D bit the big one?

Its irrelevent. It is based on the percentage of GDP. He can buy 1/50th of the entire country GDP output of a full year! That is a lot of case. The fact he was able to amase this kind of wealth in a country with only a fraction of the people we have now is even 'more' amazing. Less people buying less product makes it that much harder!