Jan 242019
Being a Chinese billionaire may not be as dangerous as being Rex Kramer at a BLM protest, but it seems to be pretty risky:
Friends Don’t Let Friends Become Chinese Billionaires
Forbes listed 115 billionaires in China in 2015. But 72 of them have dies over the past eight years:
15 were murdered, 17 committed suicide, seven died from accidents and 19 died from illness. Oh, yes, and 14 were executed.
Woof. They averaged 48 years old when they died.
China rather smoothly transitioned from a Communist regime not to a capitalist one, but to a national socialist or mercantilist regime. They don’t mind you getting rich, so long as you toe the line.