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What are the easiest ways to become a billionaire?

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Posted - July 11, 2016

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  • That's easy.  Start of as a a trillionaire and buy an airline!

      July 11, 2016 2:43 AM MDT
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  • 2465

    Oh that's easy, marry a billionaire.

      July 11, 2016 4:43 AM MDT
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  • 275

    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. 

      July 11, 2016 6:42 PM MDT
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  • 86

    Make a company and sell it.

      July 11, 2016 6:57 PM MDT
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  • 1113
    Have your parents be billionaires.
      July 11, 2016 7:02 PM MDT
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  • Kill a billionaire secretly, dispose of their body, have multiple extensive surgeries to look like the billionaire, assume the billionaire's identity.  Easy!

      July 11, 2016 7:04 PM MDT
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  • 3934

    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.

      July 11, 2016 7:26 PM MDT
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  • Scam...legally
      July 11, 2016 7:36 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Invent something new that will make use of the wheel obsolete.
      July 11, 2016 7:54 PM MDT
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  • 7939

    lol

      July 13, 2016 4:28 AM MDT
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  • 7939

    Hmm... I guess I'm off to the Forbes list then. lol

      July 13, 2016 4:28 AM MDT
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  • 7939

    More like get into battles with the billionaire's children and fight in court for a decade over it. O_o

      July 13, 2016 4:29 AM MDT
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  • 7939

    Easy peasy. 

      July 13, 2016 4:29 AM MDT
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  • 7939

      July 13, 2016 4:30 AM MDT
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  • 7939

    Hmm... There's an idea. 

      July 13, 2016 4:30 AM MDT
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  • 7939

    I never really put much thought into it, but that sounds about right.

      July 13, 2016 4:31 AM MDT
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  • 77

    -convert to zimbabwe dollars

    -porn

    -go to a casino, then put 500,000 on red

    -repeat 

      July 13, 2016 4:32 AM MDT
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  • 7939

    Hmm... or hide you away and steal your identity. I could pass for a "Billy," right? O_o

      July 13, 2016 4:33 AM MDT
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  • 7939

    What's a legal scam?

      July 13, 2016 4:34 AM MDT
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  • 7939

      July 13, 2016 4:34 AM MDT
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  • 7939

    lol I forgot about currency exchange. 

      July 13, 2016 4:45 AM MDT
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