#net worth

[saywhat-politics]

[fookinhellcurlyyy]

We were talking about this and I just had to share.

Imagine if they knew the real combined net worth of the Tomlinson-Styles household. It's them who'll dominate that list lol

Not to say these articles are accurate but for comparison's sake (H's from DM), they're at £254 million as of 2024/2025.

TOMLINSON-STYLES NET WORTH = BIG SLAY

[bowser-garyopa]

Hey I looked up your net worth and it’s in the millions. Why are you e begging with a fake sob story man. Get a life get a hobby do anything productive that isn’t scamming people.

Haha very funny. I do have a hobby, I have been working on my original love and passion for the Texas Instruments Home Computers, while focusing on improving my health and staying positive, even with silly online trolling comments. Here is the lowdown on my 'net worth', so not sure what disinformation you read!

[thashining]

Hook, line, sinker

[portraitoftheoddity]

Ok, tumblr -- economic literacy lesson of the day is the difference between Net Worth and Liquidity.

Net Worth, for a person or company, is the total value of one's assets minus the total value of one's liabilities. This means: how much all of your shit is worth, after you subtract any debts you have.

Liquidity by contrast is how much of your assets you have readily available as spending money, or can quickly and easily convert to spending money (selling stocks or bonds, for instance).

For example: meet Bob. Bob owns a house worth $300k. His car is worth $5k. He has about $15k in the bank and $50k in a retirement fund that he can't pull from until he's 60. Bob has a mortgage on the house and still owes $100k, and has about $5k in other debts he's paying off, such as credit cards.

Bob's total assets (house, car, retirement fund, bank account) are worth $370k, with debts of $105k, leaving him with a Net Worth of $265k.

Now you may be saying "$265,000 is a lot of money! Bob is pretty wealthy!"

But Bob's assets are largely not liquid. He can't quickly and easily convert them into spending cash -- for physical objects, like a house or a car, you need to line up a buyer and negotiate a deal and it takes time to liquidate those assets (and leaves Bob with nowhere to live and nothing to drive). The retirement fund is not accessible money because of the limits on withdrawals based on age. In fact, the only money Bob has that's liquid for him to spend on bills, living expenses, and any emergency that might come up is the $15,000 in the bank.

Now imagine Bob gets injured and gets rushed to the hospital in an out-of-network ambulance because Bob has the misfortune to live in the US, and after the bills, Bob's $15k in the bank is completely wiped out. Bob still has a Net Worth of $250k, but he is now completely broke and getting hit with overdraft fees and still in debt.

Now, I wanna be clear -- this isn't a defense of the ultra-wealthy; billionaires whose net worth is largely accounted for by the businesses and assets they own still have more cash in their overseas bank accounts than you and I will probably ever see in our lifetimes, and have ability to borrow absurd amounts of money against their stock as collateral for easy liquidity without paying taxes, which is a whole other mess. Those guys operate by different rules than the rest of us (look up the Billionaire Borrowing Loophole, or 'Buy, Borrow, Die') so if you see people using this argument for why Jeff Bezos isn't actually all that rich because he can't just liquidate Amazon-- yeah, doesn't quite work that way when we're on that level. But that's a whole 'nother bag of cats.

Anyway; I hope this helps clarify what people mean when they talk about Net Worth versus someone's actual accessible money, and hopefully helps you feel more informed!

[roei914]

If I were proposed to by Harry, and I’m a nepo baby, and he only spent “$500,000” on a ring.

The man is worth $140M-$290M. Things that make you go hmmm. And this said man, a ring guy himself. With his own custom rings, seems to have purchased a ring from the brand his girl is ambassador for? And if that’s fake news, a very simple ring at the least? Doesn’t seem very HS to me.

I just am saying….may be all coincidental.

[girlactionfigure]

Perspective.

Khaled Mashaal, Hamas leader, is at least 5 times wealthier than Mick Jagger (who still works for a living at 82).

And yet, despite the staggering stolen wealth of Hamas leadership, the international community expects others to pick up the tab for rebuilding Gaza.

[boof-chamber]