1. Rothschild (Estimated family net worth: $10 trillion)
If you want to stack $1 trillion in $100 bills as high as your body height, you need around 2 acres of open land. Imagine how much money that is. Let alone if it is $10 trillion like what the Rothschild family is estimated to have.
However, Forbes does not include the Rothschilds in any of its wealthiest people lists. That is because the big family is being secretive about it. So, all we can do is to speculate based on the success of the family business.
There are so many Rothschild family members with their own legions. And their business covers pretty much anything. That is why they are considered as one of the most influential families in the world.
The Rothschild empire dates back to centuries ago. It was somewhere around the 1760s, when Mayer Amschel Rothschild founded a bank in Germany, where the family originates from. Then decades later, he sent his son to found The Rothschild banking family in England. And now, Rothschild & Co. is one of the world’s largest banking dynasties.
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What do you think about legacy wealth? Do you think the 3rd or 4th generation are entitled to the wealth generated by the first?
