• PNW clouds
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    2311 days ago

    How many heirs fighting in courts all over the world does it take to redistribute a multi-billioniare’s wealth through court fees, lawyer fees, accountants, penalties, etc until none of them are supreme-wealthy anymore? Just never work again wealthy.

    Even if some of them don’t really want it, they could still find lawyers to fight on contingency and let them drain the wealth. Then donate whatever they might eventually get, if anything.

    For example, Anna Nicole and her late husband’s son effectively fed lawyers for years and years. Michael Jackson’s estate has been tied up in litigation for decades. And Mike had 3 kids, Anna one surviving kid.

    With over a dozen and counting Leon kids, and a ton of potential other types of suits incoming from world-wide plantiffs, it’ll be interesting to see how that estate eventually gets drained and dispersed.

    • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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      3011 days ago

      His money is basically incomprehensible to how we regularly think. If he hired a law firm to work on each case 24/7 for the entire year at $5000/hr, and then even if each inheritance case took 20 years and he had 50 children suing him simultaneously it’d cost him billions–but he’d still have hundreds of billions left. Fuck billionaires

      • @S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 days ago

        I think net worth is pretty different of what real assets he may have which is what his descendants would inherit theoretically. But still ot eill be a truckload.

      • @huppakee@lemm.ee
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        11 days ago

        Wait so 24*7*365*5000*20*50 is less then what this man owns??

        = $306.600.000.000

        Damn.

        edit: the * mssed with the formatting, by the way crazy fact, the lawfirm in this case would bill 1.226.400 hours per case/child.

          • @huppakee@lemm.ee
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            311 days ago

            A lol, thank you, IANA mathematician obviously. Well to keep the math correct, we could say the lawfirm had 7 people work the case 24hrs 365 days a year.

            But damn that man is rich

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              10 days ago

              The 7 people is already implied by 5000$/hour to a firm. It’s possible, but no single lawyer charges 5000$/hour.