The 2025 Forbes 400 List Of Wealthiest Americans: Facts And Figures

[littlemissmartypants]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2025/09/09/the-2025-forbes-400-list-of-wealthiest-americans-facts-and-figures/

Link to complete list

https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. The entire society is a pyramid structure, elites at the top exploiting the masses

They use wealth, capital, ideas, ingenuity, laws and lawyers. Tinkering to wealth in your basement or garage is a long gone pipe dream.

We do all the right things, work, save, invest. We watched Louis Rukeyser, CNBC, funded IRAs that Reagan told us about. We read the WSJ, Barron's, Money magazine. Without inherited wealth, seed capital, education, patents, and hardball tactics, you're not getting there. You might do well, but not making it to the top. Theirs is a Republican wet dream.

[SocialDemocrat61]

2. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

So the future for all 400 of them.

[markie]

3. reserving space for Mr. Trump (2:36)

in hell ...love Rowen Atkinson!!!

[Passages]

4. They're tax cheats too.

**The nation’s richest people are richer than ever, yet their charitable giving has not kept pace. Forbes once again investigated the lifetime donations of every member of the ranking. In all, these 400 billionaires have donated at least $319 billion to charitable causes. But three-quarters of them have given away less than 5% of their fortunes, including 40% who have donated less than 1%. Only 11 people—2.75% of the list—have given away at least 20% of their riches.



No such thing as a good billionaire.