# How does someone with no business acumen get to be the richest person in the world?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 14, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-someone-with-no-business-acumen-get-to-be-the-richest-person-in-the-world/974903 "2022-11-14T19:46:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-someone-with-no-business-acumen-get-to-be-the-richest-person-in-the-world/974903/194 "2022-11-22T17:27:24Z")

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**Modnotes** : This is pretty close to attack the poster. Please keep that to the pit.

However, @nate, the complaint seems to have merit that you’re ignoring cites in multiple threads and posts like this resemble sealioning.

> [@nate](#):
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> I’m curious, where is all of this ample evidence hiding?

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