🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨: I Tracked Down Benesum to Ask About His Financial Warfare
One peasant. One oligarch. Three questions about money.
An investigation into currency-scented perfume, gentleman’s agreements, and hiring personal assistants just to loot pennies.
PROFILE OF OLIGARCH https://app.warera.io/user/6980baba164c1577a1bc18a1
By Gaston, Independent Investigative Reporter
DISCLAIMER BEFORE READING:
For the public record: I am currently in excellent physical and mental health. I am not experiencing any "in-game" depression, my (admittedly meager) finances are completely stable.
If my account suddenly goes offline forever after publishing this, or if I am found mysteriously drowned in a two-inch puddle, please know that it was NOT by my own choice.
Let’s be brutally honest: wealth inequality in today's world has gotten completely out of hand.
While most of us are out here calculating the exact durability degradation of our boots before deciding whether to run or walk, there are demigods among us trading continents like trading cards.
I decided it was time for the working class to understand the psychology of the hyper-elite.
So, I took my life into my own hands, and I sent an encrypted message to https://app.warera.io/user/6980baba164c1577a1bc18a1, currently ranked as the #1 wealthiest man in the world.
I fully expected to wake up to a digital eviction notice, or to find that he had purchased my entire bloodline out of spite.
After months of fiercely guarding his privacy and refusing all press inquiries, he has finally broken his silence to grant an unprecedented exclusive graciously lowering himself from his financial throne to speak with a peasant.
He will answer all the questions WE REALLY WANTED to ask.
Below is the unedited transcript of the interview.
First contact:
The Interview Transcript
Question 1
Gaston : You possess more capital than the GDP of several major alliances combined. From a purely logistical standpoint, where do you put it all? Do you have a giant physical vault somewhere that you periodically swim in like a cartoon duck, or is your wealth entirely tied up in volatile trade goods and offshore shell companies?
https://app.warera.io/user/6980baba164c1577a1bc18a1 : Since having all of it in physical form would be a huge problem I only keep around a few batthubs with different country currencies.
I once tried to swim in the money, but it was disappointing experience, so I took all the money i had in the vault and grinded it down to a perfume, since the cost of moving the money would be too high.
I would say 90% of my wealth is moving somewhere around the world in trade goods and the other 9 percent in shares of companies I own more or less directly
Reporter's Note: It is somewhat terrifying to realize that the world's economy is entirely supported by a single man staring at a Excel spreadsheets.
Question 2
Gaston : The public registry shows you are rapidly closing the gap to claim the #1 wealthiest spot. As you breathe down the current champion's neck, are you engaging in any petty psychological warfare? For example, do you purposefully overbid them on trivial auction house items just to establish dominance?
https://app.warera.io/user/6980baba164c1577a1bc18a1 : The current champion had his adventures on the market in the past. Nowadays he's letting his money work for him but doesnt look for further opportunities.
Since he decided to take the peaceful life nowadays i respect his decision and I don't try to inconvenience him in his daily life
Reporter's Note: I came looking for tales of ruthless corporate sabotage, and instead, I found a polite gentleman’s agreement between two financial titans.
Question 3
Gaston : This is a point of heavy debate among the server's peasants: when you are traveling and a low-level enemy drops a single, completely worthless copper coin, do you still bend down to pick it up? At your current net worth, doesn't the physical act of looting a cheap item cost you more in real-world time than the item is actually worth?
https://app.warera.io/user/6980baba164c1577a1bc18a1 : That's a good question, i asked this myself many many times. Since ECO is also a war against the enemy faction its my duty to steal... I mean pick up the coin.
But you're 100% right that while I pick up this worthless coin, I lose money in form of opportunity. So I did the only logical thing, I hired someone who follows me and this person is tasked to pick the coin up for me
Reporter's Note: Gold, Silver, Copper, Paper or Wood, I would bend down for anything. Maybe he is hiring ?
Final Thoughts from the Ground Level
After reviewing this interview, it is abundantly clear that reaching the economic summit of Warera requires a terrifying detachment from our shared reality. We peasants are out here fighting for our lives over single copper coins, while the elite are quite literally grinding up their excess wealth into bespoke perfumes and hiring personal assistants just to pick up their loose change.
Perhaps the most shocking revelation is that the supposedly cutthroat world of high finance is actually quite peaceful at the top. The rest of us are dodging arrows in the dirt, while the billionaires have formed a polite gentleman's club where they simply let their "money work for them." (I am still trying to figure out how to give my 500 coins a job, but they remain stubbornly unemployed).
During the course of this investigation, our subject officially claimed the #1 spot as the wealthiest player of all time.
I want to publicly congratulate https://app.warera.io/user/6980baba164c1577a1bc18a1 on this terrifying achievement, and I sincerely thank him for not liquidating my meager assets during the creation of this profile.
He has proven that even the world oligarchs possess a sense of humor.
As for me, I will be returning to my scrapping market.
If anyone needs a dedicated personal assistant to follow them around and pick up their dropped loot, my resume is officially submitted.
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My starter boots took durability damage while I was pacing nervously waiting for his reply, and I genuinely cannot afford to repair them.
Next time on Gaston Investigates: I will try to ask one of the most bloodthirsty Warlord what his favorite color is (if I survive).
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