On a similar note, I bring thing this kind of thing up whenever people talk about how much money Jeff Bezos has.
While Bezos has a lot of cash for sure, he doesn't have $160B like news headlines make it out to be. Most of his "money" is tied up in stocks, and if he were to try to cash out all of it, it would tank the stock prices pretty hard, and he'd only get a fraction of it.
No one is saying Bezos has $160B in cash. At that level liquid cash doesn't really matter anyways, since there's no way you could even spend that much.
What he does have, though, is $160B worth of influence, a large part of which comes from the money tied up in stocks.
On a similar note, I bring thing this kind of thing up whenever people talk about how much money Jeff Bezos has.
While Bezos has a lot of cash for sure, he doesn't have $160B like news headlines make it out to be. Most of his "money" is tied up in stocks, and if he were to try to cash out all of it, it would tank the stock prices pretty hard, and he'd only get a fraction of it.