Rich list: 80 people with more money than 1/2 of humanity
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Since the “financial repression,” the most powerful people have only gotten more powerful.
A 2013 Oxfam report found that 80 people had as much wealth as 1/2 of humanity, and a few months later Forbes said the number had dropped to 67.
Many of us asked who exactly these people are, and now the list has been released.
RANK | NAME | 2014 WEALTH (BILLIONS) | COUNTRY | SELF-MADE? | SECTOR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bill Gates | $76 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
2 | Carlos Slim Helu | $72 | Mexico | ✓ | Telecom |
3 | Amancio Ortega | $64 | Spain | ✓ | Retail |
4 | Warren Buffett | $58 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
5 | Larry Ellison | $48 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
6 | Charles Koch | $40 | USA | Diversified | |
7 | David Koch | $40 | USA | Diversified | |
8 | Sheldon Adelson | $38 | USA | ✓ | Entertainment |
9 | Christy Walton | $37 | USA | Retail | |
10 | Jim Walton | $35 | USA | Retail | |
11 | Liliane Bettencourt | $35 | France | Product | |
12 | Stefan Persson | $34 | Sweden | Retail | |
13 | Alice Walton | $34 | USA | Retail | |
14 | S. Robson Walton | $34 | USA | Retail | |
15 | Bernard Arnault | $34 | France | Luxury | |
16 | Michael Bloomberg | $33 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
17 | Larry Page | $32 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
18 | Jeff Bezos | $32 | USA | ✓ | Retail |
19 | Sergey Brin | $32 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
20 | Li Ka-shing | $31 | Hong Kong | ✓ | Diversified |
21 | Mark Zuckerberg | $29 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
22 | Michele Ferrero | $27 | Italy | Food | |
23 | Aliko Dangote | $25 | Nigeria | ✓ | Commodities |
24 | Karl Albrecht | $25 | Germany | ✓ | Retail |
25 | Carl Icahn | $25 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
26 | George Soros | $23 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
27 | David Thomson | $23 | Canada | Media | |
28 | Lui Che Woo | $22 | Hong Kong | ✓ | Entertainment |
29 | Dieter Schwarz | $21 | Germany | Retail | |
30 | Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud | $20 | Saudi Arabia | ✓ | Finance |
31 | Forrest Mars Jr. | $20 | USA | Food | |
32 | Jacqueline Mars | $20 | USA | Food | |
33 | John Mars | $20 | USA | Food | |
34 | Jorge Paulo Lemann | $20 | Brazil | ✓ | Drinks |
35 | Lee Shau Kee | $20 | Hong Kong | ✓ | Diversified |
36 | Steve Ballmer | $19 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
37 | Theo Albrecht Jr. | $19 | Germany | Retail | |
38 | Leonardo Del Vecchio | $19 | Italy | ✓ | Luxury |
39 | Len Blavatnik | $19 | USA | ✓ | Diversified |
40 | Alisher Usmanov | $19 | Russia | ✓ | Extractives |
41 | Mukesh Ambani | $19 | India | Extractives | |
42 | Masayoshi Son | $18 | Japan | ✓ | Telecom |
43 | Michael Otto | $18 | Germany | Retail | |
44 | Phil Knight | $18 | USA | ✓ | Retail |
45 | Tadashi Yanai | $18 | Japan | ✓ | Retail |
46 | Gina Rinehart | $18 | Australia | Extractives | |
47 | Mikhail Fridman | $18 | Russia | ✓ | Extractives |
48 | Michael Dell | $18 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
49 | Susanne Klatten | $17 | Germany | Cars | |
50 | Abigail Johnson | $17 | USA | Finance | |
51 | Viktor Vekselberg | $17 | Russia | ✓ | Metals |
52 | Lakshmi Mittal | $17 | India | Metals | |
53 | Vladimir Lisin | $17 | Russia | ✓ | Transport |
54 | Cheng Yu-tung | $16 | Hong Kong | ✓ | Diversified |
55 | Joseph Safra | $16 | Brazil | ✓ | Finance |
56 | Paul Allen | $16 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
57 | Leonid Mikhelson | $16 | Russia | ✓ | Extractives |
58 | Anne Cox Chambers | $16 | USA | Media | |
59 | Francois Pinault | $16 | France | ✓ | Retail |
60 | Iris Fontbona | $16 | Chile | Extractives | |
61 | Azim Premji | $15 | India | Tech | |
62 | Mohammed Al Amoudi | $15 | Saudi Arabia | ✓ | Extractives |
63 | Gennady Timchenko | $15 | Russia | ✓ | Extractives |
64 | Wang Jianlin | $15 | China | ✓ | Real Estate |
65 | Charles Ergen | $15 | USA | ✓ | Telecom |
66 | Stefan Quandt | $15 | Germany | Cars | |
67 | Germán Larrea Mota Velasco | $15 | Mexico | Extractives | |
68 | Harold Hamm | $15 | USA | ✓ | Extractives |
69 | Ray Dalio | $14 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
70 | Donald Bren | $14 | USA | ✓ | Real Estate |
71 | Georg Schaeffler | $14 | Germany | Product | |
72 | Luis Carlos Sarmiento | $14 | Colombia | ✓ | Finance |
73 | Ronald Perelman | $14 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
74 | Laurene Powell Jobs | $14 | USA | Entertainment | |
75 | Serge Dassault | $14 | France | Aviation | |
76 | John Fredriksen | $14 | Cyprus | ✓ | Transport |
77 | Vagit Alekperov | $14 | Russia | ✓ | Extractives |
78 | John Paulson | $14 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
79 | Rupert Murdoch | $14 | USA | ✓ | Media |
80 | Ma Huateng | $13 | China | ✓ | Tech |
These are the same people, very likely, keeping the “filter” on our representative democracy. Do you feel uncomfortable about the fact that many of these people have seen their wealth increase drastically while at the same time the middle class shrinks and “austerity” is demanded almost globally outside of Sweden and Norway.
It makes me feel uncomfortable that the political influence of these people have served to increase their wealth and weaken regulations, and I suggest we seek meaningful changes on a systemic level.
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