One of the things I hear more frequently discussed in this MAGA/Tech oligarch fixation on Europe......

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. The richest European (Bernard Arnault) has got rich by selling luxury goods

which I think is the least evil way people have done it. If there's anything that is voluntary, it's paying over the odds for status symbols.

$720B United States Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX 2020
$270B United States Larry Page Alphabet 2021
$230B United States Larry Ellison Oracle 2021
$240B United States Jeff Bezos Amazon 2017
$250B United States Sergey Brin Alphabet 2021
$210B United States Mark Zuckerberg Meta 2020
$180B France Bernard Arnault LVMH 2020
$160B United States Jensen Huang Nvidia 2024
$140B United States Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway 2021
$140B Spain Amancio Ortega Inditex 2024
$140B United States Steve Ballmer Microsoft 2021
$130B United States Michael Dell Dell Technologies 2025
$130B United States Rob Walton Walmart 2025
$130B United States Jim Walton Walmart 2025
$120B United States Alice Walton Walmart 2025
$100B India Mukesh Ambani Reliance Industries 2021, 2024
$100B United States Michael Bloomberg Bloomberg 2024
$100B United States Bill Gates Microsoft 1999
$100B Mexico Carlos Slim América Móvil, Grupo Carso 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_centibillionaires

Ortega owns the Zara and Bershka clothing and accessories shops. He is considered a pioneer in fast fashion. That's environmentally bad, but that makes 2 Europeans in the top 19, and one had the most willing buy-in of his marks. And neither is in the class of "take over the world" that Musk, Ellison, Bezos of Zuckerberg are.