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Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton, who has a net worth somewhere between $450 million and $600 million, has gone viral for saying billionaires shouldn’t exist.The racing pro made the comments in 2023, but they quickly resurfaced now that he’s amassed a pile of wealth and is newly dating influencer Kim Kardashian, who has a personal net worth that’s close to $2 billion. Per Fox News, Hamilton, who races for Ferrari, is paid somewhere around $70 million per year as a salary.Hamilton also reportedly owns six houses around the world and a 90-foot yacht, as the New York Post reported, plus has brand deals with designers including Lululemon, Dior, Puma, Tommy Hilfiger, IWC Schaffhausen, and Perplexity.One of his homes is in Monaco, where his millions are protected from taxes.“If you could create one law that everyone in the world had to follow,” Jay Shetty asked the seven-time world champion in a clip circulating on X, “What would it be?”“One of the things that I struggle with every day, and it’s just how life is, and it’s been this way for thousands of years, is that there is such a disparity between the wealthy and the poor,” the F1 driver said. “When you drive around LA there’s still so many people living on the streets.”“You shouldn’t be able to have billions, right, I think there should be a limit to how much you can have because there’s enough to go around to everyone. So, somehow create a law that creates more equality and equal access for everyone.”The video now has a community note added, which says, “In order to avoid tax, Lewis Hamilton lives in Monaco and Switzerland. He also used a corporate leasing structure to save over £3 million in taxes when buying his £16 million private jet in 2013.”Commenters called out Hamilton for his apparent hypocrisy.“To the guy worth a half billion who’s dating a woman worth 2 billion wants there’d be a wealth cap on everybody else, he can go screw himself,” one person wrote, echoing what most others were saying.## Create a free account to join the conversation!