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Hetty Green Americas Most Miserly Female

They say Hetty Green was the richest female miser in American history; even more miserly than Leona Helmsley, and that is certainly a mouthful. Hetty Green was one of that ilk of Americans who are, without question, the single greatest contribution to the long history of why capitalism is patently an unfair system. She was born into wealth and subsequently never managed to understand reality. There are those who claim that her miserliness had more to do with her Quaker upbringing than the paranoia of being so rich that you think everybody is out to steal your money that is the AIDS of the Old Money rich.