He ended up, he died nearly bankrupt, but wow, he funded, he funded the American Revolution. You have other people. You have other people like George Washington. George Washington was one of the richest men alive. If you look at George Washington's wealth, by the time he died, if you adjusted it for inflation, he had the equivalent in today's dollars of about $600 million. That's how wealthy George Washington was. Thomas Jefferson likewise, was incredibly wealthy. A landowner in Virginia. It was. We didn't have billionaires at the time. No one had accumulated a billion dollars. (06:15–06:29)
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Asserts that George Washington was very wealthy, equivalent to $600 million today.
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