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All the gold? Certainly not. That's just a meme at this point.

For example, Brazilians love to say that the Portuguese stole their gold. Even the highest estimates I could find amount to like 1000 tons of gold which works out to around 135 billion dollars today. Meanwhile, the government robs them of several times that amount every single year: tax revenue is currently around 815 billion dollars.

Are you saying that taxation is theft, or is there something else going on in Brazil?

In Brazil, taxation is theft. This is a country that taxes its population at Europe levels but delivers developing country tier services. You just know the money is going into the pockets of politicians, judges and other elites.

Lol. Eurotheifs.com. Hosted on alibaba.com. Tracking euro thefts

The biggest gold mines by far are in the US, Russia, and other former Soviet republics.

No, it is much more diverse than that. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_countries_by_mineral_...

Swiss here. People literally sold it to us and bring it here for safety. No stealing as far as I know.