The Oscars roast captured something absurd about modern wealth: even after one of history's most expensive divorces, Bezos remained the world's richest person. The joke lands because the divorce — a life-altering event for anyone else — barely registered financially for him. It reveals how concentrated extreme wealth has become, where a tens-of-billions settlement is a rounding error.
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