{"id":25501,"date":"2024-02-05T23:25:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T23:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=25501"},"modified":"2025-12-16T02:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:31:23","slug":"trillionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=25501","title":{"rendered":"Trillionaire&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Court-Painter-TRILLION.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Court-Painter-TRILLION.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Court-Painter-TRILLION-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Court-Painter-TRILLION-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Court Painter seen with his favourite number painting.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1d5a8e1205b916660a20727d0f4bb4d0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#04578f\">Most are familiar with the expression to &#8216;look like a million dollars&#8217; as  <strong>to look extremely attractive and well-dressed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-cb89ef8e96cafed485ed55ed1e45a074 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#04578f\">Court Painter and his press attache AHM conducted a photo shoot to illustrate how to &#8216;look like a trillion dollars&#8217;, expressed by two satyr-like figures of the arts. Drink it in, this is what the morbidly rich future looks like!<\/p>\n<cite> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong><em>We\u2019re fast approaching the era of the trillionaire. What can we do to stop it?<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>In the fight for a balanced economy and healthier democracy, the increasing power of the ultra-rich is a calamity we cannot afford<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/atossa-abrahamian\">Atossa Araxia Abrahamian<\/a>  Feb 5\/24 The Guardian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>click link for article<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/feb\/05\/trillionaire-economy-democracy-ultra-rich?CMP=share_btn_link\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/feb\/05\/trillionaire-economy-democracy-ultra-rich?CMP=share_btn_link\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/feb\/05\/trillionaire-economy-democracy-ultra-rich?CMP=share_btn_link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-mauve-suit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25511\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-mauve-suit.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-mauve-suit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-mauve-suit-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d3d96d4e180426da43105f68c7d5c981 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#2000cc\"><strong>COURT PAINTER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cigar-AHM-cigar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24715\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4992503748125936;object-fit:cover;width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cigar-AHM-cigar.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cigar-AHM-cigar-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cigar-AHM-cigar-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-c7290757418579a93643960a588ff509 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#047c70\"><strong>PRESS ATTACHE AHM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;To celebrate the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Oxfam releases a study of how much of the world\u2019s wealth the ultra-rich own. This year\u2019s was a doozy. The five richest men in the world were revealed to have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/en\/press-releases\/wealth-five-richest-men-doubles-2020-five-billion-people-made-poorer-decade-division\">doubled their wealth<\/a>&nbsp;in the years since 2020. Seven of the 10 biggest corporations in the world have a billionaire as their CEO or principal shareholder. Combined, the value of these companies \u2013 which include Apple, Microsoft and Saudi Aramco \u2013 exceeds the GDP of every single country in Africa and Latin America combined. That\u2019s 87 countries: virtually everything bought, sold, consumed produced and dreamed up by two billion people in a whole year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f10e2a411978ccf35c4825f32e384daf wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#b31007\">The charity also reported that, within a decade, the world will probably see its first trillionaire. A trillion is a number (it\u2019s one followed by 12 zeros) to numb the mind.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-rich-man.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25506\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-rich-man.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-rich-man-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-brown-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2f5388e7aa4ab7679a0f044f6644c04b wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Court Painter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cigar-AHM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25509\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cigar-AHM.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cigar-AHM-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-brown-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-642912524473d690f80facb17d25657e wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Press Attache AHM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CourtPainter-cigar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25507\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6474464579901154;object-fit:cover;width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CourtPainter-cigar.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CourtPainter-cigar-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CourtPainter-cigar-768x466.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-brown-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2f5388e7aa4ab7679a0f044f6644c04b wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Court Painter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AHM-as-a-rich-guy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25508\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AHM-as-a-rich-guy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AHM-as-a-rich-guy-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AHM-as-a-rich-guy-768x466.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-brown-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-642912524473d690f80facb17d25657e wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Press Attache AHM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/court-painter-super-rich-pxm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20701\" style=\"width:600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/court-painter-super-rich-pxm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/court-painter-super-rich-pxm-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-cf9b977b25f9842a8bd6b6a7a49196d5 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Court Painter seen with studio assistant scheduling his next hair &amp; 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Most are familiar with the expression to &#8216;look like a million dollars&#8217; as to look extremely attractive and well-dressed. Court Painter and his press attache AHM conducted a photo shoot to illustrate how to &#8216;look like a trillion dollars&#8217;, expressed by two satyr-like figures of the arts. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=25501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trillionaire&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25501"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31886,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501\/revisions\/31886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}