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Biography
Stan Kroenke is a real estate and sports mogul with an international portfolio.
He owns some 60 million square feet of real estate -- much of it shopping plazas near Walmart stores.
Kroenke owns the Los Angeles Rams, which he moved back to California from St. Louis in 2016.
His sports empire also includes the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids and the U.K.'s Arsenal soccer club.
He is a major landowner, with more than 1.6 million acres of ranches across the U.S. and Canada.
Financial Assets
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The Great Lie of Mega-Fortunes: The Case of Stanley Kroenke
Billionaires are often presented under the romantic myth of the 'self-made person': a narrative designed to justify opulence as the natural reward for hard work, effort, or ingenuity. However, when confronting such extreme volumes of wealth with macroeconomic reality, the meritocracy narrative completely breaks down. No individual can legitimately generate through personal effort a fortune equivalent to millions of times the average working-class salary. Capital at the top does not grow because of exceptional talent; it expands through an implacable dynamic where accumulated money works exponentially faster than people, devouring the wealth generated by productive labor.
The immense fortune of Stanley Kroenke, linked to Sports and 'Sports, real estate', has not been built in a free-market vacuum, but through rent-seeking, the use of exclusive elite influence, the consolidation of monopoly positions, or inherited wealth. Far from taking real private risks, billionaire empires structurally depend on state support through direct subsidies, infrastructure use, exploitation of R&D, public contracts, and offshore tax engineering. While this wealth is equivalent to the physical weight of 153 tons of pure gold, the rest of the planet suffers from an artificial scarcity of basic resources. The fact that this wealth is enough to fully fund the public health system of DR Congo, a country with more than 105800000 million inhabitants for 10.0 years, proves that unlimited accumulation is not an entrepreneurial achievement, but the hijacking of democratic sovereignty.