Source: Exposing Truth
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.
[the numbers are measured by billions and were recorded in 2014]
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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