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Re:Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived by baxtr on Monday March 11, 2019 @08:11AM (#19358310)
Maybe a good KPI is:

What’s the share of people living that work for you?

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Re:Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived by D_Alex on Monday March 11, 2019 @08:59AM (#19358597)
That ignores the productivity of these people. Generally speaking the BBC list seems to be quite silly because of this fact.
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Re:Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived by baxtr on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:26AM (#19359191)
Productivity could be treated as constant, every 10 yrs or so? Maybe even 100 yrs in earlier times
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