Will Jeff Bezos Be a Trillionaire Someday? (with an aside on HH Rogers)

Here's why I ask:

Gates joins Bezos in $100 billion club

By TOM METCALF and DEVON PENDLETON (24 March 2019)

Bloomberg

Now, the world contains two centibillionaires simultaneously.

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, once the world’s richest person, has again eclipsed the $100 billion threshold, joining Amazon. com’s Jeff Bezos in the exclusive club, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Gates’s fortune, now $100 billion on the nose, hasn’t reached such heights since the dot-com boom, when Bezos was only beginning his march up the world’s wealth rankings. The Amazon founder is now worth $145.6 billion, having added $20.7 billion this year alone, while Gates has gained $9.5 billion.

The Gates and Bezos mega-fortunes may not last long. Gates has donated more than $35 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and said he intends to give away at least half of his wealth. Bezos, meanwhile, may be about to cede some of his fortune for a different reason: he and his wife, Mackenzie, are divorcing.

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranks the world’s 500 wealthiest people. The combined net worth of the group has surged $505.8 billion this year to $5.3 trillion.

Speaking of rich people, google Henry Huttleston Rogers, who tour guides in Fairhaven, MA, say 'had more money than Bill Gates, measured in today's dollars.'

Here are three buildings Rogers donated to his hometown:

Fairhaven Town Hall

Fairhaven High School

Millicent Library (named for Rogers' daughter who died at age 17)