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In 1983, Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and his children were worth just $2.15 billion. By 2020, Walton’s descendants had a combined net worth of over $247 billion, an inflation-adjusted increase of 4,320 percent. Estée Lauder and her descendants have seen their wealth grow from just $1.6 billion in 1983 (in 2020 dollars) to $40 billion in 2020. The Mars candy dynasty has seen its wealth increase 3,517 percent over the past 37 years. Of the top 50 dynastically wealthy families on the 2020 Forbes Billion-Dollar Dynasties list, 27 were also on Forbes 400 list in 1983.