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[–] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

By that logic he's not a trillionaire at all. They only sold 4% of the company for some 68 billion USD. A trillion dollars was never liquidated.

Edit: 4.3% and 75 billion are the correct numbers.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    He gets to borrow against the shares as if he has that trillion in cash.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    What moron bank would lend against no actual collateral.

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  • To add to what the other user said, this is why the rich convert their money into real estate wealth as well. Not only does it hold its value better than cash, it appreciates faster than any savings account ever could, and the wealthy take a loan out on it when they need cash, and then pay that loan off with money from a loan on a different piece of property.

    By repeating this over and over, they go their whole lives without ever having to actually give up any of their assets to pay off any of these loans, and when they die, the debt disappears alongside them.

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