Who was the richest person of all time?
I'm told it was that roman charioteer guy
Crassus probably. Or Octavian
>>982633
Probably not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_figures#Marcus_Licinius_Crassus - isn't of course the word of god but isn't bad either.
>>982622
1. Mansa Musa, $400 billion. Far and away the richest man to ever walk the face of the Earth was Mansa Musa, or Musa I of Mali. As the reigning emperor of the Mali empire, Musa commanded a fortune worth a jaw-dropping $400 billion
Crassus seems so devoid of any sort of charisma or personality- like the anti-Caesar.
>>982667
You'd be pissed too if you were him.
>>982676
Why is that?
People say Crassus, but from what I recall, I believe Plutarch said that there were several people under the Julio-Claudian who were richer
>>982622
Time Magazine already answered that.
>>982645
That guy upset mecca's economy with how much money he spent there during his pilgrimage.
>>982622
Adam.
>>982643
>Augustus Caesar, $4.6 trillion equivalent.
>Marcus Licinius Crassus, $2 trillion equivalent.
>You will never single-handedly posses the wealth of a large, fully industrialized nation.
>>982622
The man with n o t h i n g and e v e r y t h i n g .
>>982643
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Fugger
Fug
>>982689
Pompey pretty much stole all glory from him, at least from his perspective. Imagine, despite being the richest man alive, being so mad that in a vain attempt to win glory you lose disastrously, die and catalyst the end of the republic.
>>982645
Crassus had a lot more than that
>>982822
I thought he tried to conquer the Parthians because he was a greedy fuck
Impossible to tell really. Who knows how much money Stalin owned, or over how much he could exert power.
But yeah, Crassus is probably high up the list, if we're talking non-governmental individuals.
>>982622
He who has learnt to love himself :^)
Probably some pre-Mongolian fun time Chinese emperor.
>>982622
Crassus and his fire companies. The apocryphal story of the Parthians poring molten gold down his throat. To quench his insatiable thirst for wealth says it all.
>>982736
underrated post
>>982736
No. Adam had no one to sell his possessions to, and where there is no potential buyer there is no economic value that can be expressed in terms of money.
If anything, Eve the moment she had an apple that Adam also wanted was richest, because she held the entirety of the world's demanded goods.
me
>Crassus
Quick reminder to everyone saying Crassus: the riches he accumulated in decades of real estate market were outdone by Pompey and Caesar spending a decade sacking Asia and Gaul.
One of the reasons he accepted to align himself with his sworn enemy Pompey in the triumvirate was so he could go and rape Syria and Parthia so as to close the gap.
Crassus was nowhere near the richest roman.
Diogenes
>>983355
meme
>>983494
Adam owned all of the gold in the world, which is a greater amount of gold than Scrooge McDuck owned.
You can't even think of a fictional character richer than Adam.
>>983499
>You can't even think of a fictional character richer than Adam.
Sure I can, what about a sci-fi Space Emperor who owns thousands of worlds full of gold and people and stuff?
>>983494
IMO being rich is about relative wealth compared to your peers. Not the absolute amount of luxury you have acces to.
>>983528
See? That's how you do it.
>>983530
Well even then I'd say a modern billionaire is richer in relative terms than the global average than some heathen king was. Idk how you'd measure that, tho, but I know most people throughout history have lived on roughly $1 a day, and while the modern "poverty level" is ten times that, the average multi billionaire is more than ten times as rich as any historical king.
>>983660
Kang rossa of the wewuz empire
>>982835
No he was trying to reassert himself. Pompey and Caesar both had huge victories that were fresh in everyone's minds. Aside from being insanely rich, Crassus really hadn't done anything of note since he crushed Spartacus.
>>982622
The one with most friends.
>>983878
How many waverunners can you buy with 'friends'?
>>983885
Well, having tons of friends you probably have one friend with waverunner who will gladly borrow it to you.
>>983889
>Implying poor people just have waverunners lying around
Triggered
>>983885
>Have enough friends
>Form an army out of your friends
>Overthrow the government
>Declare all the waverunners governmental property
You could have as many waverunners as you want
>>983891
You don't? I'm an eastern European janitor and I have 3 waverunners just sitting in my garage.
>>983857
And Pompey got the credit from that.
What about the Pope? Aren't all of the vatican's treasures/possessions considered his personal possessions?
Riches are far more abstract than commas in a bank account.
Probably one of the private entities in control of printing the world's reserve currency.
>>984096
Not that there is much credit to be had by crushing a slave revolt for a Roman
>>982856
Some Russian guy told me the most expensive item of Stalins possessions was his pipe. Don't know if that's true or just something they tell Russian school kids.
The Queen technically owns the UK.
>>985514
It's likely, he slept in his office and seldom changed clothes.
>>983499
>fictional character richer than Adam
God
>>985810
There's a difference between the Queen and the Crown.
>>985098
No they belong to the catholic church and he's merely the head of the church.
That's like saying everything belonging to the United States of America is personal property of the president.
>>982622
Im not sure of this but, Perhaps the ronan emperor Trajan ... He got many many many tons of gold and silver from his conquest of Dacia.. If not then def Augustus
>>985514
Thats not because he was poor. Its because he was a paranoid psychopath who was afraid to leave his office... And he was one of thr richest ever
>>982622
The Rothschilds? The Rockefellers? The Morgans?
>>986403
ok but who owns the crown... prolly the bitch who wears it
>>988237
More like the Sauds
>>982856
Stalin was kinda like Robespierre. Robespierre didn't get rich either, he did it for ideals.
>>988685
Hardly. 20 Trillion is a pittance to 137 Trillion. The Rothschilds command the value of gold itself, decided every day at 10am in an EU bank. Rockefellers are kinda pleb tier at 11 Trillion.
>>988777
how do you know how much the Rothschilds are worth?
>>986379
>Not understanding the word "fictional".
>>982633
Is that Musa I of Mali? Cause its probably him. He controlled a sizable percentage of the earths GDP cause his country was so gold heavy.
>>988689
>stalin
>doing it for the ideals
>>985514
That doesn't indicate his level of Wealth.
Michelangelo was a filthy hermit too, and he was rich.
>no one mentions Croesus
>>982633
>/pol/s face when they really wuz kangz n shiet
>>989188
Croesus may have been the richest man in the pre roman world, but he's nothing compared to the giants that came later
>>989195
The problem is that they all ignore West Africa and want to claim Egypt.
The problem is that dey wuzn't fey-rohs an shit
>>989207
The black community laughs at Hotep's anyway.
>>989198
I think we can assume OP refers to wealth as a percentage of total wealth present at that time, otherwise it doesn't make much sense.
Where does John of Gaunt come in?
>>989207
you mean /pol/ ignores ancient west africa and tries to push the egypt meme
>>982633
WE
