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. But the richest people in America are the people who funded and supported the revolution against government power. (06:30–06:36)
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