Authoritative post about triple adjectives Resp
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Respert wrote:
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[The very, very, very high net worth individual] is probably some completely unknown guy worth $42 million in rural Washington that lost both parents to glioblastoma. Still amazing to get the support, but wouldn't move the needle.
No, this is impossible. I am closely acquainted with the $42 million man from eastern Washington. He is reputable and devout, and he is a very high worth individual. But clearly he is not, according to the rules of height, a very very high worth individual, let alone a very very very high net worth individual.
There are rules for these things. The third Very inexorably nails down billionaire status, which is enough to impress the man on the street. Not even Miriam Adelson or Melissa Gates has a third Very attached to her name. No, the four triple very high worth individuals are Bill, Warren, Larry, and Musk, As you can see, I'm on a first-name basis with three of them, so I know these things. It can't be Musk, because he is not a humanitarian and possibly not a human being. Larry has given $200 million to cancer research, but he likes to control the institutions he sponsors. So we are down to Bill and Warren. I'm going Warren because he is still anonymous; he is probably deciding whether to put money into the company, and if he does he knows the public arrival of his name would jack the price up by a factor of 5 or 10, abnegating his profit.
So that's who it is, and why.
If your name is Warren, I apologize for outing you. If your name is not Warren, you are sincerely welcome.

