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Nicholas Goldberg: How would you feel if you lost $58 billion? Would you still buy that superyacht?

In this photo from July 20, 2021, Jeff Bezos walks near Blue Origin’ s New Shepard after flying into space in Van Horn, Texas.

Elon Musk has lost $51 billion since the beginning of the year. Jeff Bezos has lost $55 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg lost more than half his fortune — $64 billion, as of Saturday — and plummeted to No. 17 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Call me old-fashioned, but in my world tens of billions of dollars still sounds like a lot of money. So I briefly, almost, kinda felt bad for some of the world's richest people.

But then I snapped out of it. What was I worrying about them for? No matter what happens to his

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