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Douglas_Knight comments on Why are Harvard's alumni so wealthy? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: JonahSinick 15 March 2014 06:47PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 16 March 2014 01:31:17PM *  1 point [-]

3000 alumni with individual wealth of $200m-$1bn, collectively worth $420 billion

3000 * $200 m = $600 b, lower bound.

I don't have any conclusion to draw from this. Added: actually, I think the answer is that the Daily Mail is misquoting wealthx and the 3000 alumni have at least $30m.