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worth really means shytI just dont believe someone worth 200mil is filing bankruptcy over 25mil worth of lawsuits. So obviously he was never worth what we all thought.
bill gates is WORTH 60 billion.... i doubt he could get you 30 billion in cash by next week
worth is taking everything you have, selling it for what IT'S worth, calculating it as if it would all sell in an instant AND sell for what it's worth
so IF bill could sell all his stock in microsoft, plus all his belongings for face value.. then it'd equal out to 60 billion... but that's unlikely to ever happen all at once and the buyers come up with all that money in an instant for exactly the price he wants
that's why having liquid is always important too... you can lose all your money quick if it's tied up in things or one thing that bombs