So...this guy became rich by raking in money sent back from the US by illegal immigrants who wouldn't be able to afford cellphones normally.

Nice schtick.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that 75% of Mexico's GDP is made by US immigrants sending money back home. I wonder what that does to our economy?

They're taking our billionaires!!!

Trabajown3d!

They're doing the jobs American's don't want.

NikolaiFarkoff: Trabajown3d!

ROFL!

dj_spanmaster: It wouldn't surprise me to find out that 75% of Mexico's GDP is made by US immigrants sending money back home. I wonder what that does to our economy?

actually the official figure is 50% of the mexican gdp comes from money sent from the us.

either way it's sort of odd that the new richest man in the world is in one of the poorest countries in the world.

mediaho
They're doin'g t'he job's American's don't wan't.

FTFY

So that's why he didn't say goodnight.

Yeah, I'm sure being the 2nd Richest Man on Earth sucks. Poor guy.

He owns CompUSA. Maybe he should staff it with mexicans to remove some of the suck.

cranberryzero: either way it's sort of odd that the new richest man in the world is in one of the poorest countries in the world.

Nah, that's how it works, in the poorest countries they have the largest concentration of money in the hands of the fewest possible people. Which is why people have a problem with America slowly eliminating the middle class, one of the biggest indicators of a first-world nation.

Still, the world's richest man is a Mexican? C'mon, admit it, that just doesn't sound right.

Headline is funnier when read in Norm MacDonald's voice.

/Helps if you tail off at the end.
//There, eh?

Carlos Slim?

The Mexican cowboy?

Eight percent of Mexico's GDP? That's insane.

mediaho: They are doing jobs that americans can't make a living doing, due to they can pay illegals 5$ per hour and get away with it...

cranberryzero

Mexico is one of the G20. I think. Anywho, they have a pretty big economy.

cranberryzero
either way it's sort of odd that the new richest man in the world is in one of the poorest countries in the world.


Says a lot about capitalism, doesn't it.

/off to feed my troll-sized appetite
//likes freedom

A telecom guy is richer than the narco guys? Wow.

Mexico has a huge rich-poor divide, with a tiny elite holding most of the country's wealth and around half the population living on less than $5 a day

Sounds like a Republican/Libertarian wet dream. Maybe they should be letting all the illegals in after all.

I'm broke so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/Spare change?

NikolaiFarkoff: Trabajown3d!

I LOL'd.

/nice to know my Spanish classes are becoming useful.

Well, to be fair, Gates has been shoveling off scads of money to charities lately. He's at no risk of going broke, but that might have something to do with it.

I can't wait for Carlos Mencia to make a joke about this.

"Yo, how crazy is it that a Mexican is the world's richest man? Dude, that's a lot of burritos, homeboy. Now let's go ask 47 old white ladies what they think."

sinistermonk

Carlos is waiting for someone funny to do the joke, so he can use it.

So the richest guy in the world is a fat Mexican named Carlos Slim?

Love the world we live in today. Seriously...

Good for you. Now help your country out. Perhaps in say some sort of 'charity' like way. I know Gates donates around 50 million in charity.

Badafuco: 50 million in charity.

16 or so billion, actually

He won't be the richest man after someone comesout with a set of 10 billion dollar 21" rims....

ewwww... I'm going to go kick my own butt now

I doubt Bill is going to have to skip any meals.

but it's $67.8 billion pesos, so it doesn't really count

If he's so rich why is he mexican?

/what?

Lt. Col. Angus

Headline is funnier when read in Norm MacDonald's voice.

that's pretty much exactly how it sounded in my head. nice.

Badafuco: I know Gates donates around 50 million in charity.

I bet he doesn't even take advantage of the tax benefits he can get for his 'generosity'.

cranberryzero:either way it's sort of odd that the new richest man in the world is in one of the poorest countries in the world.

Mexico is nowhere near being one of the poorest countries in the world, not so long as Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and most of the rest of Central & South America exist. It's closer to the middle.

Shennanigans!

His wealth is in Pesos which everybody knows are no longer accepted anywhere so he is flat broke.

I thought the Ikea founder passed Gates in terms of wealth last year.

I love his pic.

/Time to make the doughnuts.
//I keed! Please don't send your privately funded death squad after me.

it's pronounced "sleeeeeeem"

/maybe he should build a school or something

Why is it that all the rich guys have bad hair?

Yes, but I can surf the web using Windows, I cannot surf the web using a illegal immigrant.

yeah, but doesn't 67.8 billion in pesos come out to like $tree-fitty?

/seriously, who needs more than a billion dollars?

Madonna, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kevin Costner. All the people who will still have a career next year, take one step forward. Not so fast, Billy Ray!

Gates has given away literally billions.

"According to a 2004 Forbes magazine article, Gates gave away over $29 billion to charities from 2000 onwards. These donations are usually cited as sparking a substantial change in attitudes towards philanthropy among the very rich, with philanthropy becoming the norm."

well im off to send my monthly welfare check to my family in Mexico.....haha suckas!!!

/trolling, anyone???

i would have went with

"dinerown3d"

/fail :(

stvdallas: So...this guy became rich by raking in money sent back from the US by illegal immigrants who wouldn't be able to afford cellphones normally.

Nice schtick.

Sounds like Slim's shady.

Badafuco
I know Gates donates around 50 million in charity.

If that were actually the number, that would be about 1/1000th of his net worth - the equivalent of Joe Blow dumping the change in his pocket into some panhandler's cup.

NikolaiFarkoff

Trabajown3d!

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A telecom guy is richer than the narco guys? Wow.

Narco guys spend a lot of money on cell phones. Always throwing them away and getting new numbers.