Meet Mansa Musa I of Mali – the richest human being in all history

Gaddafi should not be on that list.  He was not a wealthy man and did not care about being wealthy.  The money belong to the people of his country.  What some of his children did should not be a reflection of the man himself and his efforts to build his country.

What is interesting on this list is the fortune of John of Gaunt which has supported the British Royal Families and their household staff since his death in 1399.  He had vast amounts of land around 50 thousand acres in the Lancaster area of England which still remain intact today and which even up to today still supports the current Royal family of Britain by giving them millions of dollars in rent money.

Only Jagdeo getting blame for stealing his wealth. Everyone else wealth just drop in their laps. 

Gaddafi did nothing to build his country. He has unfettered rule for decades and never  formalized a central authority to take advantages of economy of scale and build a great education system or any robust social and industrial  infrastructure. He instead build fiefdoms run by backward lackeys who did nothing for the people but institutionalize local hegemony. Instead of a formal summoning creed he left rancorous tribal enclaves with parochial understanding of social life and no grasp of a national identity. He was as dippy as he appeared in the end.

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Nice he give them water, and soccer etc but he needed to give them a national identity and centralized social institutions unfettered by tribal wranglings. Libya's revolt was not because t hey were in paradise. It was because they saw themselves as getting nowhere fast despite bing loaded with capital. Unfortunately, putting the broken pieces together will not be easy.

The man had over one billion US dollars in several foreign western banks to pay for students from his country to study in Western Universities with free tuition, free board, free rent and free books.  libyan students did not have to work and study like other foreign students. Every student received U.S.$2,300/month for accommodation and car allowance when studying overseas.

When Gaddafi took over Libya it only had half of a mile of paved road.  Look at Libya today it is all connected by highways.

Libyans had interest free loans from their banks.

Libyans paid no money for electricity.

Every newly married couple received 50 thousand us dollars from the state to buy their house or apartment.

Every family could have bought 40 loaves of bread for 15 cents us.

Libya had no foreign debt and 150 billion US dollars in foreign banks.

Every mother is given 5 thousand us when they gave birth.

Before Gaddafi only 25 percent of Libyans were literate. The day he died 83 percent of Libyans were literate.

world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Manmade River project was build by Gaddafi.

Why did he need African mercenaries to keep the population at bay or why did these so loving lovingly cared for Lydians destroyed their nation? His problem was he never had a plan.

When the people have to pay for electricity, housing, education, food fully out of their pockets then they would realize how good they had it.

Gaddafi's rule proved one thing to me.  It does not matter how much material wealth or services from a state the people have received.  If they fear their leader, cannot speak their minds without fear of persecution and if they think that their human rights are not respected by the leader then they will eventually turn against the leader no matter how much free stuff they get.  Gaddafi executed several people like the public executions in January 1977.  It instilled fear in some of the peoples' minds and they always remembered that about him.

Lesson to all dictators, don't assume you know all what the people want.  People want food, clothing, shelter, water, etc, but they also want freedom to chose the direction of their nation and their lives.