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Adjusting for inflation, Smaug's hoard would be worth about US$72 billion in 2023.

With that in mind, Forbes's list of richest people in the world could be written in more appropriate units of wealth - smaugs and millismaugs. I give you:

The "Smaug Check" 20

1 🇫🇷 Bernard Arnault & family
2.93 🐉

2 🇺🇸 Elon Musk
2.5 🐉

3 🇺🇸 Jeff Bezos
1.58 🐉

4 🇺🇸 Larry Ellison
1.48 🐉

5 🇺🇸 Warren Buffett
1.47 🐉

6 🇺🇸 Bill Gates
1.44 🐉

7 🇺🇸 Michael Bloomberg
1.31 🐉

8 🇲🇽 Carlos Slim Helu & family
1.29 🐉

9 🇮🇳 Mukesh Ambani
1.15 🐉

10 🇺🇸 Steve Ballmer
1.12 🐉

11 🇫🇷 Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family
1.11 🐉

12 🇺🇸 Larry Page
1.1 🐉

13 🇪🇸 Amancio Ortega
1.07 🐉

14 🇺🇸 Sergey Brin
1.05 🐉

15 🇨🇳 Zhong Shanshan
944 m🐉

16 🇺🇸 Mark Zuckerberg
894 m🐉

17 🇺🇸 Charles Koch
819 m🐉

17 🇺🇸 Julia Koch & family
819 m🐉

19 🇺🇸 Jim Walton
816 m🐉

20 🇺🇸 Rob Walton
800 m🐉