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All the Money in the World

Nathan Broadbent

02 Feb 2026 — 2 min read

It was a rainy Sunday so we stayed home and watched movies. We saw All the Money in the World (2017): "the story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III, and the desperate attempt by his mother to convince his billionaire grandfather John Paul Getty to pay the ransom."

I read a bit more about J. Paul Getty:

And this is the part that stood out to me:

In 1957, Fortune magazine named J. Paul Getty the wealthiest living American,^[2] while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records declared him to be the world's wealthiest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion (approximately $8.8 billion in 2024).

Wow. $8.8 billion. That's ... actually not that much? At least, not compared to today's wealthiest individuals. Elon Musk's net worth is around $774.6B!

So I thought it would be fun to build a timeline of all wealth in the world since the very beginning of wealth itself.

Here it is:

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