While the crisis caused by the pandemic CoVID-19 , pushed 267 from the list of world's richest people according to Forbes, around is still a lot of billionaires to occupy the vacated space. This is the third consecutive year, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos tops the list of richest people in the world. And this in spite of the divorce process, which has reduced its capital from $131 billion to $ 113 billion. moreover, as a result of the divorce, the former wife of Bezos Mackenzie Bezos debuted the list at number 22 with a fortune, which is estimated at 36 billion dollars. Was recently published report of Oxfam International, according to the results which have 22 the world's richest people the combined wealth more than millions of women in Africa — the most vulnerable populations in the world, according to the authors of the report. Given the fact that the wealth of the world is in the hands of 1% of the population, the pandemic of the novel coronavirus will show how devastating social inequality in the world.
However, since the beginning of the pandemic CoVID-19 the whole world spoke about what the new coronavirus is a kind of «the great equalizer» since even the richest people on Earth are not immune from the virus of SARS-CoV-2. And even regardless of how many devices of artificial ventilation of lungs (IVL) they purchase for personal use. The drop in the number of billionaires this year already reflects the economic impact of the pandemic. As the authors report, women all over the world, especially those living in poverty perform more than three quarters of all unpaid work of care that is undervalued and taken for granted by both business and governments. Meanwhile, an aging population, the reduction of public spending and the climate crisis will exacerbate gender and economic inequality in the future.
Together with the founder of Amazon in the top five list of the richest people in the world were bill gates, sitting in second place. Behind him — in third place was Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. He walked around the legendary investor Warren Buffett with a fortune of $ 76 billion and took third place. Buffett was in fourth place after his fortune fell by 15 billion to $ 67.5 billion dollars. Also in the top five were bill gates – he stayed in second place, and his fortune is estimated at 98 billion dollars, which is 1.5 billion more than last year. The founder of Oracle Larry Ellison is fifth place with a fortune of $ 59 billion.
In sixth place with a net capital of $ 55.1 billion was Amancio Ortega, founder of Zara owner Inditex. Followed the founder of Facebook, mark Zuckerberg with $ 54.7 billion But Alibaba co-founder Jack MA became the owner of a fortune of $38.8 billion, which allowed him to sit at the 17th place. The founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, who recently announced that donates $1 billion to charity, including the fight against CоVID-19, 804 took place with a fortune of $2.6 billion.
Given a resource allocation, it is not surprising that there are so many problems
It Should be noted that the Dorsey donation – the largest to date, although many other billionaires, including Arno, Zuckerberg and gates also donated funds to fight the pandemic. Some of them use their factories for the manufacture of face masks and disinfectants for the hands. So, LVMH is engaged in the production of disinfectants for hands and accepts orders for surgical masks. In 2020 in the index of Forbes first got 178 billionaires. Among them, Eric yuan, CEO of Zoom, the popularity of which has increased dramatically due to the fact that most of the world's population is forced to work from home during the outbreak of coronavirus. According to Forbes, his fortune is $ 5.5. of billions of dollars.
Overall, in the ranking of 2020, there are 2,095 billionaires for a total of $8 trillion – compared to 2,153 and $ 8.7 trillion, respectively, in 2019. With about 267 people dropped out of the list, and record 1062 man witnessed the fall of their state in the background of the pandemic. Among those experiencing a decline in the status of President trump, whose net worth was less than $ 1 billion from 2019, when the President of the United States took place 715.
Despite growing awareness about the growth of inequality, most world leaders continue to follow the policy programs that benefit the rich and harm the poor. These data , which also indicates the tax cuts for billionaires, promoted by the President of the United States Donald trump and leader of BrazilJairam Of Bolsonaro. If the richest 1% of the population paid just 0.5% tax on their total state and not on annual income in the next 10 years it would pay 117 million people worldwide in education, healthcare and elderly care. Really what salary they should receive in the report are not reported.
If we really appreciate the care of others, should review the existing financial system to millions of women in the poorest countries have been able to find time for education or a private, higher-paying work.
Millions of people suffer from lack of drinking water, food and vitally needed resources
Scientists estimate that by 2030, 2.3 billion people will need care, and this is 200 million more than in 2015. But governments around the world increase the taxation of the poorest segments of the population, reduce public spending and privatize education and health care, according to Oxfam. In the next five years due to climate change 2.4 billion people will face water shortages. About why with the production of drinking water difficulties .
Richest people of the planet in 2020. All learned?
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