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Let's just ignore thousands of European noble families and wealthy industrial tycoon dynasties.



Any examples? I’m not really aware.


Just a google search away, but the most obvious, british, spanish, dutch royal families, Habsburgs, Thurn und Taxis, hundreds more, also from business life. This "wealth switches hands often" thing is a wise-sounding dumbness, wealth gets more and more concentrated in the world, and is usually only redistributed in event of war and conflicts.


Rothschild




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