Would Scrooge McDuck have been able to amass his fortune had he lived in the real world? Let's assume no one gives a shit that he's a talking duck.

>>149553934 (OP)
Not a chance. You have to spend money in order to make money. There's no way he'd amass much if he just horded it all in a money bin.

does he get plot armor and protagonist bias irl?
Then yes, literally (((God's Chosen Duck)))

>>149553934 (OP)
In modern times? no

>>149553950
The money in the money bin is just treasures he feels emotionally attached to(and petty money that comes and goes). Most of his money is in businesses and related things.

>>149553934 (OP)
Yes. He was smarter than the smarties, and tougher than the toughies.

>>149553934 (OP)
Assuming he lived during the same time period as his origins in the comics, he has a big chance of becoming a bilionare. Hell, even without all magic mumbo jumbo from the comics he could become atleast a bilionaire by exploiting the first and second world war(i THINK scrooge just slept through those events).

>>149553934 (OP)
No. The real world does not have enough wealth to match his own.

>>149554192
I'd feel a lot more comfortable knowing the vast majority of private wealth is held in the hands of a miserly but fair minded and mostly benign scot. Given how retardedly evil most influential people are I'd rather live in a world with private individual who knows all their tricks and constantly undermines their attempts to control private commerce.

Sex with miss Quackfaster.

>>149553934 (OP)
He’s too much of a cuck, remember that he got soft after one ethnic cleansing.

>>149553934 (OP)
Scrooge's secret is that he's extremely old.

>>149553934 (OP)
No.

>>149554212
>All the money is Jewish gold he promised to safeguard and never gave back

>>149553950
It is his spare money. Most is invested.

Our world isn't choc full of ancient treasures to find. It's mostly just old pots and shit.

>>149554354
Stop maligning your betters if you know what’s good for you.

>>149554918
>Our world isn't choc full of ancient treasures to find. It's mostly just old pots and shit.
Disregarding shipwrecks which would easily clear hundreds of billions of dollars.

Also, squatter's rights could get you a ton of land theoretically.

>>149553950
There was a comic where he forced himself, at Donald's urging, to spend a huge sack of money as doing so would have been cheaper than building an expansion to the money bin. What Scrooge forgot and Donald didn't know at the time was the fact that Scrooge owned so many industries around the area that trying to blow it all away would just result in all of that money coming back, foiling their plan.

>>149555028
Just buy an airline.

>>149554354
>fair minded

>>149553934 (OP)
Scrooge's fortune is usually given as so-and-so many cubic acres of money or in nonsense numbers as it is here.
Just ONCE was it specificed concretely. He laments that, if he continues losing a billion dollars a minute, he'll be broke in just 600 years.

If he's figured correctly, he's worth 3.156e17 dollars. Roughly 300 quadrillion dollars. I don't know where this is from, but it looks like Carl Bark's art. So it's accurate. And back then, a billion was real money!

>>149553934 (OP)
If we add being almost 200 years old and a prime candidate for blacksite experiments about longevity/immortality to the ignore list, then I'd be inclined to say yes.
He found more gold than just the goose egg nugget so he had starting capital to actually pull off all the business related shit he's done.

>>149553934 (OP)
No, because he's a cartoon character and his wealth is exaggerated because it's a cartoon and everything is exaggerated in a cartoon because IT'S NOT FUCKING REALISTIC. Now PLEASE take your anti-autism meds.

>>149554212
>bilionaire by exploiting the first and second world war
That panel from life and times where Scrooge is walking around Wall Street with a sign that says "I'm buying Everything" during the 1929 crash is the most big dick energy image in history

>>149555334
Can you find it?

>>149555409
Not that anon, but are you always this lucky? I literally cropped this right before I saw your post.

>>149555334
I don't remember that. Maybe it's finally time to read my physical trades (aquired before Bombi). Must've been a decade or more since I read the floppies.

>>149555436
>are you always this lucky?
Only with small unlikely shit like getting a limited time offer 3 days after the campaign ended because that particular store still had stock.
Also, thanks a ton.
https://youtu.be/VnaJpBMIYmo
Have a song.

>>149554595
While I wouldn't put it this way this sadly is the right answer
He has too much care and human soul to truly make it to the level he did, and plays too hard on the fair and square meme. He is distant enough he would make millions, but he isn't sadistic/sociopathic enough to make billions, let alone the obscene billions he did

He values life too much.

>>149553934 (OP)
Let's assume he still got started in the 1800s back when there were still lands to plunder without legal consequence and untamed frontiers. Assuming he hit it rich during the gold rush and didn't get suckered by the scalpers selling supplies to the prospectors, assuming he used that money to start a business, assuming he used that business to find oil and secure the land rights to it, assuming he made the right trade deals, assuming he used his money to bully politicians for the policies he wanted, assuming he was a genius investor who avoided all the pitfalls of the stock market, assuming he lived long enough for compound interest to really set in, then yes. He could've made all that money.
Money from a mountain of assumptions. Just like how he did it in the comics.

Now, assuming he's starting today from square one? Fuck no. Even if he got lucky and found an unclaimed gold deposit or oil field, that's still not enough money to measure to Scrooge's fortune. The only way these days to make something approaching Scrooge tier money is to already start with money by being born into a family with money and then build up from there, and even then people still bungle that. Or win the mega lotto, but that's not really amassing a fortune.

>>149558549
>Now, assuming he's starting today from square one? Fuck no.
This.

These days you can only be rich by already being rich. The system was gamed decades ago.

>>149553934 (OP)
Sure, anon.

Do you guys think gender roles exist in the duck world? doesn't seem there's much difference between female and male ducks

>>149553934 (OP)
In the way that he did? No. The guy is way too unwilling to take chances when it comes to investments.
He'd pass over even the most guaranteed money makers, unless they're literally run at as low of a cost as physically possible, and that shit simply doesn't work in the long run.

>>149554932
>betters
I know it's bait but still

>>149553934 (OP)
Conceptually Scrooge would be the personification of the fake idea peple try selling about unregulated capitalism. He has a monopoly over most of the wealth, but at the same is both honest and competent as any man could never be, he has no ulterior motives for increasing his wealth other than appreciating the satisfaction of doing so while having no ulterior motives like partaking in politics, exercising control or being above the law. He hoards wealth, but at the same time never stagnates the economy by aways chasing new ventures and risks

>>149560430
While there isn't necessarily big sexual dimorphism in ducks, besides plumage, male ducks do tend to be slighter stronger than female ducks, and in some species slighter bigger.
Unlike in some birds they also don't take turns nesting the eggs, so I could see a similar provider role for males spring up, while the females take care of the eggs.
After that it would probably take on a different form compared to humans, since males rarely stick around to take care of the ducklings.
Since ducks also have more of a type r-selection strategy, where they have many offspring with less investment, compared to human type k-investment, with few offspring but large investment, they'd likely have a different family system, and subsequently social system in place, likely having a bigger focus on individuals compared to social groups.
Honestly, they'd probably be pretty shitty people to be around from a human point of view.

>>149558700
I think the only option to make Scrooge tier money now is through scams and con artist shit with that virtual monopoly money, but every rich idiot is taking a swing at that now which has raised the cost of entry too high. Just like everything else.

Or invent a way to get to space that is exponentially better than anything else that currently exists, get to the asteroid belt and snag one of those 1,000ft space rocks made of platinum.
Then you can either crash the markets with more precious metals than anyone has ever had, or play your cards in such a way where you get to decide the price of everything forever since you'd have more resources than anyone else could ever have.
That feels like a more proper Scrooge plot and the type of story I could see him staring in today.

>>149560624
>He hoards wealth, but at the same time never stagnates the economy by aways chasing new ventures and risks
There's actually an entire comic where he explains that if he just hoarded all his wealth he'd end up poorer, because money requires real circulation and simply hoarding it instead of investing in business ventures and paying workers so that they can afford the fruits of those business ventures just makes everyone poorer.

>>149558323
this is for real one of my favorites pages in existence ever
do you have a link to the full comic

He would be tied to duck Mossad and duck CIA

>>149563851
He would be tied to fucking everyone, and playing everyone.

>>149553934 (OP)
At no point did scrooge ever suggest he wasn't spending money to make money. Actually fucking read shit instead of making jackass threads you faggot

Here is Scrooge explaining how money works.
https://youtu.be/3AsN4zJgzKU?si=ZrE0lhw7FPOajrVY
Somewhat out dated, but it's solid.

>>149553934 (OP)
In the present day? No. The only way to disrupt and corner industries to the tune of billions right now is crypto (consider one of the world's youngest billionaires started from nothing in 2022 and is worth 2 billion off of a creating a crypto gambling app), and Scrooge would consider crypto a scam and probably never get into it to begin with.
If he were still born in 1867 but in the real world? Probably, yeah.

>>149558323
Is this Branca? It seems like his style but toned down quite a bit.

>>149561134
>Gary Gearloose, Donald and the three nephews are looking through the new telescope Gary built
>they see an asteroid of pure platinum approach the solar system
>after a brief shock Gary reassures them it won't hit earth and bemoans the bitter irony of having sunk all his assets into a device that lets him see the solution to his troubles
>Donald blabs to Scrooge
>Scrooge commissions Gary to build him a rocket after confirming (his old navy spyglass is for some reason as powerful as Gary's massive telescope)
>Glomgold gets wind of the scheme and reveals he's had a luxurious rocket THE WHOLE TIME
>race to the asteroid starts
>Scrooge stakes a claim to "All the riches of this rock"
>Glomgold stakes a claim to "This rock"
>Fight in zero G ensues
>Glomgold agrees to let them mine whatever they can cause it turns out HE already had his henchmen steer the asteroid towards earth
>stuff happens and scrooge gets blamed
>has to sell the platinum to pay for the catastrophic damage falling asteroid pieces caused
>story ends as Scrooge and Glomgold decide to recoup their respective losses by using the asteroid as anchor for a space elevator they'll run jointly
>cue daily petty swipes at each other
>Fin

>>149565014
>Gary Gearloose

>>149553934 (OP)
Yeah, he’d pull himself up by his Disney royalties and shares.

>>149565014
Barks did a story where the Earth turns out to have a 2nd, small, moon at the Earth-Luna L2 Lagrange point. (Which is actually unstable over the long run, but never mind.) The important thing is the new moon is solid gold. So the race is on to claim it.
Scrooge wins but never considers what that would do to the price of gold. The stuff looks nice but isn't all that useful.

A better grasp of economics was shown in a tale where a tornado empties his money bin and gives a few million to everyone on Earth. Scrooge isn't worried. He (and the ducklings) continue to work his farm. Everybody else quits their job and goes to see the world. The economy stagnates and, pretty soon, Scrooge has a monopoly on food. Eggs are half-a-million apiece. Scrooge gets all his money back, the status quo is restored, and the story ends happily. Scrooge _deserves_ his insane wealth because he works hard and made it honestly.

Very few of today's richest people can say that. They mostly inherited money, gamed the system, or ran some sort of scam. Even Warren Buffett (who cultivates an "avuncular" image) does some "shady" things.
>https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/warren-buffetts-mobile-home-empire-preys-on-the-poor/

>>149565468
Warren Buffet is an investor. That means three things - being so rich that losing a couple millions don't matter, inside trading or rug pulls.

Don't be poor.

>>149554354
>fair minded and mostly benign
He personally burnt down an African village to steal their land and establish a rubber plantation.

>>149565468
>The stuff looks nice but isn't all that useful.
>a component in a vast majority of everyday electronics isn't that useful
Sure, it's microscopic amounts per unit but you can bet your ass the industry would switch to a cheaper alternative in a heartbeat if they could.

Elon Musk did it, and he isn't nearly as smart as Scrooge.

>>149565801
Musk had money backing him and just lucked out in investing at the right companies, no matter what lies he spouts now about having been a poor homeless poor person rising to the top through his own ideas and abilities. If Paypal had lost out to one of the other countless dot com businesses that planned to fill the same niche then we would have never heard of him, for example. A crucial part of Scrooge's character is that he actually did start at the literal bottom shining shoes and earned all his money himself and didn't just luck out on investing his wealth during the dot com boom, he only invests in the modern day when he's already the richest man in the world and even then he generally requires more certain terms or an adventure being part of the investment.

Musk wouldn't even have been able to make money shining shoes because he's such a weirdo that he'd keep saying weird shit to his customers while holding their shoes hostage and drive them away.

>>149555125
Carl Bark's Magic Hourglass, 1950.