Smaug Is Poorer Than Americans

This is Smaug, the dragon from The Hobbit. Smaug famously stole a mountain full of gold. So full that he sleeps buried under gold. We're talking literal tons and tons of gold by weight. Forbes ranks Smaug as the second wealthiest fictional character. He had been first, but the price of gold took a tumble and now his vast, overwhelming fortune is only worth an estimated $51,400,000,000.00, or $51.4 billion. That means that EVEN THOUGH he has an ENTIRE MOUNTAIN full of almost nothing but solid gold, Smaug would rank as the FIFTEENTH wealthiest American. Fourteen Americans have more money than a gold-hoarding dragon. Please consider that next time you say deca-billionaires deserve their wealth and shouldn't pay their employees living wages.

Smaug, the gold-hoarding dragon from The Hobbit, is shown lying on a vast pile of treasure. The text humorously argues that even an entire mountain of gold would make him only the fifteenth wealthiest American, mocking extreme billionaire wealth and anti-worker arguments. EN: Smaug, the gold-hoarding dragon from The Hobbit, is shown lying on a vast pile of treasure. The text humorously argues that even an entire mountain of gold would make him only the fifteenth wealthiest American, mocking extreme billionaire wealth and anti-worker arguments.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 10011 2023-06-11