According to CNN reported on the 4th, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows that in 2021, the wealth of the world's top 500 richest people increased by a total of 1 trillion US dollars (about 6.37 trillion yuan), with total assets of more than 8.4 trillion US dollars.
Elon Musk, the world's richest man and Tesla CEO, grew nearly $118 billion, luxury giant Bernard Arnault Arnault, chairman of the Louis Vuitton Group, grew $62.7 billion, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin grew $47 billion and $45 billion, respectively, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's wealth grew by $25 billion.
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According to an analysis by the American Tax Fair Organization and the Institute for Unequal Policy, the collective wealth of U.S. billionaires has soared 70 percent since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, with total assets exceeding $5 trillion. Meanwhile, according to UN estimates, 150 million people worldwide will be pushed into poverty by 2021, and there is a huge wealth gap between senior management and ordinary workers.
Source: North Evening New Vision Network
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