There's Rich, And There's Jeff Bezos Rich: Meet The World's Centibillionaires : NPR - 0 views
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You probably think 2020 has turned out to be a pretty lousy year, what with the coronavirus pandemic, a global recession and unceasing partisan warfare in Washington. Then again, you're not Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk.
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Bezos. With a net worth of $182 billion, the Amazon founder is by far the wealthiest person on the planet.
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"It is bigger than the GDP of most countries in the world. I mean, it is larger than the market cap of many companies that are on the S&P 500,"
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Rounding out the group of five centibillionaires are Musk, Bill Gates of Microsoft with a net worth of $129 billion
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In fact, Musk and Zuckerberg each ascended to the $100 billion club this year after shares of Tesla and Facebook rose 677% and 39%, respectively.
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"It's not anything to celebrate. It's kind of a disturbing milestone," he says. "But I think it's a predictable outcome of four decades of flat wages and steadily concentrating wealth and power."
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Bezos, for example, has such a staggering fortune that despite going through a messy divorce and giving up one quarter of his Amazon shares to his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, he still remains the world's richest person.