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After the efforts of Steve Forbes, he finally reached an agreement with Zucker on the specific time of the interview.

Well, the interview will be conducted the day before the release of the new Forbes Rich List.

The interview date is coming as scheduled!

The interview officially begins~

Steve Forbes, head of Forbes Group, interviewed Zucker himself.

"Let me say an extra word first. As the head of Forbes, you interviewed me personally this time, is it because my personal wealth has increased greatly this year?"

Zucker asked first.

Steve Forbes was stunned for a moment, but still nodded and said, "Yes. Last year, your personal wealth was ranked 27th in the United States and 53rd in the world. Compared with last year, your personal wealth has increased significantly this year."

Zhu Ke smiled: "Can you tell me directly before the list is officially released?"

"cannot!"

Steve's answer was surprisingly straightforward.

Hearing this, Zhu Ke spread his hands and made a helpless expression: "Okay, I can't convince you, but you have to be more polite for the interview later."

Zucker was also afraid that Steve would ask some sensitive topics.

In particular, international political issues have always been the focus of Zucker's avoidance.

Just make money, don't talk about politics!

——This is the rule pursued by Zhu Ke.

Steve smiled and said, "Then I would like to ask you, do you have any knowledge of the world's richest families?"

Zucker: "Of course."

The current Zucker is also unambiguous, and directly named the names of many famous and rich families.

The Walton family behind Wal-Mart, the Mars family behind the Mars Group, the Koch family behind Koch Industries, the Wetter Highmer family behind Chanel, the Anheuser family behind Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Heung Kong Sun Hung Kai Properties The Lee family...

Zucker named more than 20 names in a row, each of which was a super rich family.

Currently it is!

In 2020 too!

And the wealth will double a lot. For example, the No. 1 Walton family, whose family wealth has climbed directly to nearly 200 billion US dollars;

The Mars family behind the Mars Group is not much worse, with family assets as high as 130 billion US dollars;

The Koch family behind Koch Industries is also the owner of more than $120 billion.

"Then here comes the problem!"

"The two houses of the U.S. Congress just passed, once again, there was a large-scale discussion on the tax on the wealthy. What do you think?"

Steve shrewdly raised the issue of the "rich man tax".

Zucker immediately pointed at Steve and said, "Man, the first question is so hot, do you think I'm not dying fast enough?"

Since the 1950s, the collection point and tax rate of the wealthy tax has always been a point of concern and debate for many rich people.

“Mr. Wald? You know. With the global economy slowing down and trade wars between major powers? There are growing fears of a global recession. For example, the Covant family, the majority owner of BMW? Two years? $6.7 billion in wealth.”

Steve Forbes said.

Zucker nodded and said, "But even so? As far as I know, the daily income of these rich families is still very amazing? So the problem of huge wealth gap? It has also become the focus of many people's attention."

"The discussion of the tax on the wealthy has intensified as a result."

......

In fact, Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of the Democratic Party's 2020 presidential candidates, has made taxing the wealthy one of the core of her campaign.

"There will be a 2 percent wealth tax on those with wealth above $50 million? A 3 percent wealth tax on those with wealth above $1 billion?" she said.

What is the wealth tax?

To put it bluntly, the government forces the rich to cut meat.

That's right, it's compulsory, whether you agree or not.

However, her policies are not popular in America, where private property is sacrosanct.

After some pondering? Zucker replied: "As far as I know, since the last century, more than 20 countries in Europe have imposed taxes on the rich before? But including Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Most countries, including the Netherlands and Sweden, have finally abolished the tax on the wealthy.”

"Why cancel?"

"Because of this brutal, coercive, almost robbery-style meat-cutting? It won't solve the problem of wealth inequality? Instead, it will bring many new problems..."

A word? Zucker does not support the so-called wealth tax.

Want to cut meat?

Of course Zucker wouldn't agree!

Similarly, the vast majority of wealthy groups in the United States will not accept it. Whoever dares to open their eyes on this topic is the enemy, and it is the enemy that will never die!

......

Over the next few days, Steve Forbes asked multiple questions again.

"How do you view the Internet under the current situation?"

Steve heard.

Zucker replied: "The current Internet situation is generally quite severe. First, the Internet bubble in early 2000, and then the recent 9/11 incident, during which batches of Internet companies and technology companies collapsed. ."

"However, I always insist that the dawn of the Internet will come soon!"

From Internet to Finance;

From finance to real estate;

Including hotels, food, retail, entertainment media, medicine and so on, Zucker and Steve Forbes have launched a lot of discussion.

This interview should be the longest interview that Zhu Ke has been interviewing since time travel.

Finally, near the end.

Steve asked: "Mr. Wald, tomorrow is the day when the Forbes magazine rich list will be announced. Have you made any predictions about your personal wealth ranking?"

Zucker shrugged and smiled, "It's as much as it should be."

Hearing this, Steve smiled and didn't say anything more.

......

the next day.

The highly anticipated "Forbes" annual rich list is officially released!

[List of the 400 Richest Americans in America]

NO.1: Bill Gates;

Bill Gates, who once again topped Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people this year, has become the world's richest man for the eighth consecutive year.

Total personal wealth: $58.7 billion.

Don't think too much...

You must know that before the burst of the Internet bubble in 1999, the total personal wealth of Bill Gates was as high as more than 120 billion US dollars!

The recent 9/11 incident has also seriously shrunk Bill Gates' personal wealth, otherwise it would definitely exceed 70 billion US dollars.

NO.2: Warren Buffett;

Known as the "stock god", Warren Buffett, with Berkshire Hathaway's holdings and investments in various industries, disclosed the total personal wealth this year of as high as 32.3 billion US dollars.

NO.3: Paul Allen;

With his status as the second largest shareholder of Microsoft, his personal wealth is as high as 30.4 billion US dollars.

NO.4: Larry Ellison;

As chairman of Oracle Corporation, his personal wealth in November 2001 was as high as $26 billion.

On the list of the 400 richest people in the United States, three of the top four are Internet giants.

"Forbes" said: In the form of global Internet stocks and technology stocks plummeting, many rich people who used to make their net worth soared by the surge of Internet stocks have also shrunk greatly with the explosion of Internet stocks, evaporating hundreds of millions of people. billion in value.

For example, Masayoshi Son, the founder of SoftBank, who was worth $76 billion at the beginning of last year, is only worth $5.6 billion this year.

The amount of personal net worth shrinking is appalling.

NO.5: Zucker Wald;

That's right!

In November 2001, the No. 5 person on the Forbes 400 list of America's richest people was Zhu Ke.

The total personal wealth disclosed is as high as 22.8 billion US dollars!

As soon as the list came out, everyone was silent!

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