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Commentary on the human condition — metaphysics, freedom, and the bigger picture nobody's talking about. Beth uses physics to build a case for God, breaks down what's really happening in AI and geopolitics, and connects the dots most people miss. Unscripted. Raw. Paradoxically nuanced. Subscribe or keep living in a low-resolution simulation.
Quantum Bombs
Welcome to Quantum Bombs,
a commentary show on the human condition
through metaphysics and freedom.
Though today we are really looking at
the human condition and how we think,
view, and measure
money, riches, and wealth.
And because I'm a nuanced person,
this topic of the world's richest man
has always driven me crazy.
So today we are going to go over the list
of the world's top 10 richest men,
then countries.
Then we're doing the crux of today's episode.
With that nugget, we then form our new list
or we look at our new evaluation
on the world's richest men
and the world's richest country.
Today's an awesome day.
I say that hesitantly because
we don't know really how AI will pan out for humans,
but yet it is still exciting.
XAI has its IPO.
It came out today long-awaited.
We've got two other big behemoths coming out.
I'm a big fan of Anthropic.
So it's great.
Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire.
And by the metric that drives me crazy,
the nuance of the show,
it is because his wealth,
the richest man status,
what most people in life don't understand
is it's based on his,
I know you financial bros do.
I've got to say that as I'm saying this,
I'm feeling you out there.
It's based on his Tesla stock evaluation.
And now as today, yay, he's a trillionaire
because we're adding in his XAI stock.
But and the reason why this matters,
we're going to get to it by the end of the episode,
is the framing around that.
You're rich, you have a trillion dollars.
Why can't you just give some of that to poor people in Africa?
The framing of how we measure wealth matters.
And we're going to get to that for countries and for people.
And why is Elon Musk not just super wealthy?
Well, sure, Beth, the word of today actually,
as you probably have guessed on the episode,
is liquid.
Well, duh, Beth, his stocks aren't liquid,
but he could just sell them, right?
True.
I worked on a project years ago,
and that's why it's always gotten at me when I've heard it.
The project was explaining and layman to people
what Rule 144 restricted stock is and what it means.
And please, for all you experts out there,
hit me up in the comments and tell me
how horribly I've done with this episode.
I would love that because it just helps
the algorithm share my video with others.
But simply put, because I'm not a financial expert,
Rule 144 stock basically tells people like Elon.
Well, first off, it's a safety net
that started in the 1930s after we had our Great Depression.
They said, you know what, pump and dump schemes
just aren't working out for the shareholders, right?
So it tells people who are typically
founders of the company or maybe even employees
of the company, company insiders
who have and were given and acquired this stock.
You can't just dump it on the market and sell it at a whim.
So yes, you could always own shares,
but you can't just sell it like you could normal stock.
It's got Rule 144 stamped on it telling people like Elon,
oh, you could sell basically around 1% every quarter.
And yes, there's some given nuances, but that's roughly it.
So it basically just says you can't dump your stock.
So Elon technically isn't the richest man in the world.
He's the most collaterally rich man in the world.
What that means guys is every bank wants to lend to him, right?
He's a sexy, oh my gosh, I would love to lend that guy money
and borrow he does.
So he didn't really pay you for XAI,
$44 billion to save free speech.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Means the world to me with everything happening right now in Europe
that we can have truth shared with the world.
It's saving lives worth every penny.
But yes, so he borrowed funds against his Tesla stock.
He didn't have $44 billion, which what does that mean?
Is that what makes him different?
Him being cash broke.
Him having to sell all of his houses,
majority of his houses a few years ago just because he wanted some cash.
He doesn't have cash.
He didn't even have cash to buy X.
He borrowed it, which makes his stock.
Not only does he have restrictions on his stock,
but the stock he does have is also pledged.
And that's the difference I like thinking about
when you think about Warren Buffett.
Well, he's got a lot of cash.
Well, yes, but his cash is also owned by Berkshire Hathaway, the company.
It's not individually his $300 billion, which he's sitting on a lot
because he knows something's coming, baby.
He knows something's up.
Something is a brewing.
Bond market's not looking good.
No, I'm kidding.
Anyway, so Warren Buffett's stock that he does have
actually is easier to even have access to
because majority of his stock isn't pledged.
But anyways, the point is, is poor old Elon
isn't the richest man in the world,
which let's get to our lists now that we I've hammered enough about this.
So as of today, we're looking at the 10 wealthiest men in the world
based on our crappy standards of measurement.
And I will tell you here shortly why the crappy measurements of standard
are really the best we got.
You can kind of figure this out with logic, right?
Because this has to be provable.
So here's our provable public knowledge list of people's wealth
based on stockholder.
Number one is Elon coming in at 1.1 trillion as of today
as I sit in this chair.
We've got Larry Page, who is with Google Alphabet.
And then also surgery brand with Alphabet, Larry Ellison with Oracle
and Mark Zuckerberg, right?
Jeff Bezos, Jensen Huang, which is with NVIDIA.
I actually made the list 10 people because I wanted to include him
because I was like, how is he not on top five?
So anyway, thank you, Jensen.
Warren Buffett, number eight, nine Bill Gates and 10 Mukesh Ambani.
Look on the screen if you want to see the totals of what everybody's worth.
But there's a massive difference between Elon Musk's wealth
and at 1.1 trillion and the next person Larry Page at $304 billion.
So then I was thinking, why isn't Saudi money, some of this Middle Eastern
or big chiefs in India, why aren't they included in the top 10?
Well, the answer is because that Saudi money I was thinking about
is actually sovereign wealth funds, top sovereign wealth funds.
So these are states, guys. These are our governments.
This is interesting once I started looking at it.
So we're going to go over to the top seven.
And these are, think of them as not checking accounts.
They're savings accounts and I call them savings account roughly
because while they're not liquid, they are still easily liquid,
meaning they could turn them liquid pretty quickly.
So Norway coming in at the top, number one, 2.1 trillion.
Funny story, I was in Oslo and I was walking and I just paid $36 for my lunch
and I based on my dollar exchange and I saw the bum on the street
and I was like looking at that bum and I was like, that bum is wealthier than I am.
And there was actually some truth to that.
By me being an American citizen and that bum having Norwegian citizenship,
technically where I stood, I felt like he was wealthier than me.
Anyways, these countries are stacking away wealth and savings.
Two is China at 2 trillion.
Three is also China with another fund that's several hundred billion.
There's that Saudi money at number four, coming in at basically around a trillion dollars.
Five is that Kuwait money coming in at one trillion.
Six, the UAE.
So high hundreds of billions and seven is Qatar, 580 billion.
Now that sounds about right.
Now I was like, well, gosh.
Okay, so what I'm going to say here is accurate and not accurate at the same time,
which is I was wondering like, well, of course America isn't on the list of good savings, right?
These are all people putting sticking money away from what their revenue has brought in.
Why aren't we doing that?
Why?
Because we're debt driven, bro.
We like flaunting that 39T a lot.
But really like, well, Beth, why would you save money when the rest of the world,
clearly right here, is already doing a lot of that savings is represented in dollars.
They're already doing it for us.
Why would we save when we got the money printer, baby?
And everybody has to, gun to the head, buy oil and US dollars.
I say that lightly, but it sure correlates, right?
When you try to step away from the US dollar, things don't go so well with our military.
So it's kind of like we're bullying people to continue to let the dollar be the world reserve
as we have the wonderful practice of not saving because we're the primary currency.
I guess to my point is that we don't have any assets to show at least right here right now.
We'll get to that if you're saying that we do.
Something interesting to note here is if we go by the paper wealth of Elon Musk,
he actually beats everyone on the sovereign wealth funds list for governments except Norway and China.
Okay, so now we're going to be technically accurate.
We're going to look at the most liquid of funds, right?
For countries first, then for people.
So countries with the most liquid, you know, foreign currencies on hand, cash that they could easily expel quickly.
Changes a little bit.
Norway's disappeared now.
We've got China in at number one at $3.4 trillion.
So, you know, love or hate them if you're just looking at the US versus China.
This is maybe why they hold a lot of power because, bro, they're liquid.
Two is Japan, $1.3 trillion, which is quite interesting because the yen is having quite a bit of problems right now
and balancing.
I think it's their bond market as well.
Could be wrong.
Anyway, Switzerland, $3.8 billion.
Then we go down to India, Russia, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Hong Kong.
And oh, we've made the list.
I wonder if AI just put it in on there for just to put it into our metrics.
But USA coming in at number 10 with $240 billion of cash reserves.
Okay, which again, I make a face because $240 billion compared to $39 trillion.
I'm horrible at math, but I know it's not.
I don't know the percentage, but it's, it doesn't count.
Basically nothing, a big nothing burger.
Okay, well here, hold on guys.
Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.
USA comes in number one on countries by gold.
I'll list out the rest, but we have eight tons, 8,000 tons of gold.
Germany coming in at number two at 3,300 tons of gold.
The third is Italy, fourth is France, fifth is Russia, sixth is China, seventh is Switzerland,
eight Japan, nine India and 10 the Netherlands.
Woohoo.
So maybe we are savers, right?
We hold some assets.
We didn't blow it and spend it.
This is basically just an old remnant.
My grandma's old ring that we kept in the closet guys.
When you do the math, which thankfully AI already did the math for me,
8,000 tons of gold sold on today's market simply correlates to,
I think it's like 2% of the national debt at $39 trillion.
So it really, I don't even know, I mean, yeah, you'd listed on our little collateral list
when you're doing your banking and you want to list all the assets you got to offset
what you're trying to borrow against, but really, wow, you know,
having that 39T with this 8,000 tons of gold doesn't really get us anywhere,
but at least we could act like, hey, we're responsible.
Fort Knox has a lot of good stuff in it, which is still debatable if we even have it or not, right?
I mean, I don't know, I haven't looked into it,
but I know it's a theory that we didn't actually follow up on when Elon's like, let's just go.
It was actually Elon saying, hey, Trump, we're bros now.
I think we're talking at this point.
Go and open up Fort Knox.
And we didn't.
Okay.
And now what you have been waiting for, the promise of the premise is how do we calculate
the wealthiest humans alive on planet Earth?
Will Elon make it?
Well, the irony is, is that guys, we can't really make a list that could be accurate
because obviously cash assets, thank goodness, at least until this day in the United States, is private.
You're bearing your gold in your ranch?
Private.
None, yeah.
Right?
But I couldn't leave us without a list.
So of course I compile the list, but it's just a fun guesstimate and it's based on liquid assets.
And then I think I made a, actually, yeah, I then I made a list based on, well, what if it's not cash?
What if it's just like crypto or something?
And I don't even know what I did with that, but we're going to get to it because I wanted
to include gold and crypto at this point where we're talking about things that are easily liquid.
Crypto is uber-easy liquid, as you probably know, you just flick your thumb around on the screen
and oops, sometimes you lost your, you know, crap, did I really send it there?
And, you know, it's very scary how easily you could send around crypto.
Scary because you could accidentally like lose it or do something stupid, etc.
The other thing is that gold is highly easily plenty of buyers to buy that gold once you could verify it's real.
Okay, actually, it turns out I made one list, one list of everything.
This is basically including cash, gold and crypto all at once.
Woohoo, I knew I didn't go crazy.
Okay, and then I also want to, oh yeah, these are color theme guys for a reason.
These are also, I made the first one red because it's a big no-no on it's hard to liquidate versus the blue.
I thought blue is a lovely color, really should be green, meaning easy to sell baby.
All right, these are basically in verse if you could see because coming, you know,
Bill Gates was number nine on our stockholder wealth, but unfortunately,
saw the other day someone on Rumble was making a case that he's a lizard, didn't watch it,
but he's the super, super weird guy, you know, has very weird endeavors to have us eating fake food,
you know, sticking us with jabs that aren't good for people.
We have Bill Gates coming in.
Oh yes, super weird guy, 50 billion dollars.
He's very diversified in his assets, a lot of cash and bonds on hand.
That makes him the world's wealthiest man by the metric.
I always think like the metric of some like young girl reading the headline, like, you know,
some 17 year old girl going, oh wow, you know, he should help people.
Second is Michael Bloomberg at 40 billion.
He's cash rich.
Third is Jeff Bezos actually 20 billion regular stock sales.
So that might even mean every quarter he's selling that 1% baby.
Fourth is Warren Buffett, 10 billion dollars, slow trickle out.
And that's, that's as we expected, right?
We knew Warren's cash heavy right now waiting for something to shoot a drop.
Five is Michael Saylor, big fan of Michael myself.
1.3 billion baby in that personal Bitcoin.
So that doesn't even include, you know, your thinking of his company owns a lot of stock,
but he actually owns like, I think it's 17,000 shares on his own privately.
So that's boom.
And that's based off Bitcoin's price today.
Hope you're buying the dip.
It's around $63,000 this last week.
I got my old pops, my old boomer pops finally got him buying Bitcoin for the first time
and on a Gemini credit card, earning repoints and Bitcoin.
And already in a month based on him dining out a lot, he's already earned $80.
It works quite well.
I need to give a referral link actually.
But then we have Chang, Changpin Zhao, 1 billion in crypto.
All right, crypto bro.
Number seven, Brian Armstrong under 1 billion liquid.
Eight is Larry Ellison of, I believe Google, right?
Small, oh no, mostly Oracle stock, meaning he's already sold it, most likely.
Or he either owns it without the restriction because this whole metric.
In fact, I was mad at AI when we made this list.
It included people's stocks.
I was like, what's the point of doing this show if we're just giving the same list that
you saw in the red right there?
This is supposed to take out their stocks.
And we're actually talking liquid, baby.
Nine is Mark Zuckerberg, tiny, almost all of meta stock.
I wonder what it means by that.
And number 10, now technically you could argue that Elon isn't even 10.
But for the sake of the show, I needed to make the inverse.
He went from number one to the bottom.
This again is a fun guesstimate of people's wealth guys.
These are not actual factual terms.
This is based on like public knowledge and us guessing that Elon is number 10 near zero
liquid, all pledged stock.
Yes, as we know, pledged meaning he's already borrowed against it.
God bless him for buying X.
All right, so I think the point of what I wanted to make is that to that leading heart
empathetic person that's always wanting the billionaires to give to the poor,
right?
The framing around it is first, they don't even have it to give.
And it's not even theirs a lot of times to give, right?
Like my assumption, well, isn't Warren Buffett, you know, heavy in cash?
Well, not really.
Berkshire Hathaway is.
So, and then there's also the framing that I couldn't help but put in on this episode
because it's just how I feel about things.
But as you know, a lot of people that are complaining about billionaires.
Number one, they give more jobs and money to people that way.
But number two, when you try to just water hose the world with your so, you know, not
suicidal empathy, but it's almost the same thing of that performative virtue signaling
empathy.
You can't just give for people money and think that it's going to work out.
It typically goes straight back to the top and AI got offended when I made this point
because I was like, Oh yeah, that's easy.
And so I argue in my case, so it's very well put in my head.
But the point being is that they don't have the structure to receive a lot of money.
It's why NFL players and athletes who are wealthy, typically after retirement, lose
it, lottery winners don't have it years after when someone on government benefits gets money
and they're already getting their nails done on government benefits.
Are they going to, when you give them money, are they really going to make the, are they
really going to make the choice of should I go back to the nail salon, double down?
Most likely they will because they don't understand that the other choice would be
setting up the structure around them to receive the money to allocate it to put it in places
that have yields, et cetera.
But yeah, that's why it won't work.
You know, you could say that all day long and hate billionaires all day long, but I think
they are the most necessary people in society to Elon's point.
He argues that we should be having babies because the only way to work through problems
is not because we have a population problem.
In fact, I heard the other day population could be as low as like six billion people
and it's not eight billion people like we've been told it could be even be as low as five
billion people.
But by having more babies, you're bringing more genius, more people that will have ingenuity
to bring companies and technology into the world to put dinner on the table to have the
mortgage paid because they're able to create the jobs.
Of course, that's why I said this is bittersweet at the top because we have AI coming in and
I don't know exactly how that'll play out.
However, I have given you, if you go back to my prior episodes, shout out, go watch the
video.
It's called AI Can't Afford Itself.
I make a case for likely futures financially with AI that you might not have thought about.
And then I made a follow up to that one letting you know every single thought I could possibly
include on the nuanced topic of the 3400 data centers that Trump in June 2025 signed into
law as that we could have a high speed rail to just go ahead, take your land, turn off
your power because for national security guys, we're fighting China.
We've got to beat them on these data centers.
But really, is it just to take over our agricultural food or create some type of mass surveillance
digital grid hill?
I don't know, but I don't want to lose my try and try to thought I'm riffing on AI.
But the point is that as of right now, billionaires are creating a lot of jobs.
Yes, we're going into a technocratic error where AI is taking over and that ironically
may not give jobs, may take away jobs.
It most certainly will happen.
First and foremost, coming really quickly, you'll see it through the number one employer
of the entire world.
Do you know what it is?
It's drivers.
But the minute AI takes over driving 18 wheeler wheelers or lorries like in the UK, that's
when the largest workforce around the world will lose their jobs.
However, there's so many other different facets that could happen.
I'm more of a pessimist than an optimist, but I'm open and I'm standing behind my point
right now, which is there is so much more room for abundance.
We are never living in a scarcity mentality of we should stop having people or that or
even from the fact that we've got to steal from the billionaires and give to the poor
because, again, the structures and the knowledge and even the choice preference isn't there.
Even if you give the mass majority of people, I like to, you know, the popular term is NPCs.
I call them derpers.
Even with the choice of I could invest it or I could just go back to the nail salon and
double down on those level, those super long nails.
That's still there, right?
In the event billionaires did send a country tons of money.
We have now proven that anytime NGOs with our government gets involved or anytime large
sums of money are sent anywhere, it's more likely to be picked off by corrupt people
than given to the very people it needs to go to.
And every way Africa today is a perfect example of this.
When it even gets to Africa, let's say it gets to the right people, even their own governments
are corrupt and typically take it and the money doesn't get distributed where it needs to go.
So the metrics of how we measure wealth is interesting.
Not all the people have it, but I still like that we've made a trillionaire,
only because I'm a little bit bored in life and I get interest in geopolitics and watching these things happen.
To the point of my show and my fun ramblings today, wealth is what we think it is.
The richest man alive can't spend his fortune.
He's collateral rich, barming against stock he can't sell.
The richest country doesn't save a dime.
It prints and owes $39 trillion.
We measure everyone in dollars while the dollar itself is backed by nothing but force of our military and faith.
The whole scoreboard is a facade and once you see it, you can't unsee it.
So welcome to the day the first trillionaire was created on paper only.
Stay human, stay free and stay liquid, baby.
You never know what's coming our way soon.
I'm just kidding. I like staying diversified and stay liquid. Bye-bye.