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That's easy. Start of as a a trillionaire and buy an airline!
Oh that's easy, marry a billionaire.
Market a product that has the potential to create a massive shift in people's spending habits. Let's say you developed a drivetrain that would allow a regular car to get 130 mpg. You could license your technology to car-makers, and also bet huge against oil companies by shorting their stocks.
Make a company and sell it.
Kill a billionaire secretly, dispose of their body, have multiple extensive surgeries to look like the billionaire, assume the billionaire's identity. Easy!
Be born at a time such that you're in your mid-to-late 20s when a massive social/technological shift occurs which overthrows the old wealth-generating order.
In his book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell notes that a large majority of the richest people in human history were born either about 20-25 years before the Industrial Revolution took off (making Carnegie, Pullman, Rockefeller, etc. fabulously wealthy) or about 20-25 years before the personal computer revolution took off (making Gates, Balmer, Jobs, Ellison, etc. fabulously wealthy).
Of course, even if you are so fortunate to be born at the right time, you still need to win the "tournament" that makes you the next US Steel, Apple, or Google, instead of the next National Tube, Commodore, or Excite. But without the timing advantage, history suggests it's much harder.
lol
Hmm... I guess I'm off to the Forbes list then. lol
More like get into battles with the billionaire's children and fight in court for a decade over it. O_o
Easy peasy.
Hmm... There's an idea.
I never really put much thought into it, but that sounds about right.
-convert to zimbabwe dollars
-porn
-go to a casino, then put 500,000 on red
-repeat
Hmm... or hide you away and steal your identity. I could pass for a "Billy," right? O_o
What's a legal scam?
lol I forgot about currency exchange.
