Finally: List of 80 People With as Much Money as 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.


RANKNAME2014 WEALTH (BILLIONS)COUNTRYSELF-MADE?SECTOR
1Bill Gates$76USA✓Tech
2Carlos Slim Helu$72Mexico✓Telecom
3Amancio Ortega$64Spain✓Retail
4Warren Buffett$58USA✓Finance
5Larry Ellison$48USA✓Tech
6Charles Koch$40USADiversified
7David Koch$40USADiversified
8Sheldon Adelson$38USA✓Entertainment
9Christy Walton$37USARetail
10Jim Walton$35USARetail
11Liliane Bettencourt$35FranceProduct
12Stefan Persson$34SwedenRetail
13Alice Walton$34USARetail
14S. Robson Walton$34USARetail
15Bernard Arnault$34FranceLuxury
16Michael Bloomberg$33USA✓Finance
17Larry Page$32USA✓Tech
18Jeff Bezos$32USA✓Retail
19Sergey Brin$32USA✓Tech
20Li Ka-shing$31Hong Kong✓Diversified
21Mark Zuckerberg$29USA✓Tech
22Michele Ferrero$27ItalyFood
23Aliko Dangote$25Nigeria✓Commodities
24Karl Albrecht$25Germany✓Retail
25Carl Icahn$25USA✓Finance
26George Soros$23USA✓Finance
27David Thomson$23CanadaMedia
28Lui Che Woo$22Hong Kong✓Entertainment
29Dieter Schwarz$21GermanyRetail
30Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud$20Saudi Arabia✓Finance
31Forrest Mars Jr.$20USAFood
32Jacqueline Mars$20USAFood
33John Mars$20USAFood
34Jorge Paulo Lemann$20Brazil✓Drinks
35Lee Shau Kee$20Hong Kong✓Diversified
36Steve Ballmer$19USA✓Tech
37Theo Albrecht Jr.$19GermanyRetail
38Leonardo Del Vecchio$19Italy✓Luxury
39Len Blavatnik$19USA✓Diversified
40Alisher Usmanov$19Russia✓Extractives
41Mukesh Ambani$19IndiaExtractives
42Masayoshi Son$18Japan✓Telecom
43Michael Otto$18GermanyRetail
44Phil Knight$18USA✓Retail
45Tadashi Yanai$18Japan✓Retail
46Gina Rinehart$18AustraliaExtractives
47Mikhail Fridman$18Russia✓Extractives
48Michael Dell$18USA✓Tech
49Susanne Klatten$17GermanyCars
50Abigail Johnson$17USAFinance
51Viktor Vekselberg$17Russia✓Metals
52Lakshmi Mittal$17IndiaMetals
53Vladimir Lisin$17Russia✓Transport
54Cheng Yu-tung$16Hong Kong✓Diversified
55Joseph Safra$16Brazil✓Finance
56Paul Allen$16USA✓Tech
57Leonid Mikhelson$16Russia✓Extractives
58Anne Cox Chambers$16USAMedia
59Francois Pinault$16France✓Retail
60Iris Fontbona$16ChileExtractives
61Azim Premji$15IndiaTech
62Mohammed Al Amoudi$15Saudi Arabia✓Extractives
63Gennady Timchenko$15Russia✓Extractives
64Wang Jianlin$15China✓Real Estate
65Charles Ergen$15USA✓Telecom
66Stefan Quandt$15GermanyCars
67Germán Larrea Mota Velasco$15MexicoExtractives
68Harold Hamm$15USA✓Extractives
69Ray Dalio$14USA✓Finance
70Donald Bren$14USA✓Real Estate
71Georg Schaeffler$14GermanyProduct
72Luis Carlos Sarmiento$14Colombia✓Finance
73Ronald Perelman$14USA✓Finance
74Laurene Powell Jobs$14USAEntertainment
75Serge Dassault$14FranceAviation
76John Fredriksen$14Cyprus✓Transport
77Vagit Alekperov$14Russia✓Extractives
78John Paulson$14USA✓Finance
79Rupert Murdoch$14USA✓Media
80Ma Huateng$13China✓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. 
Credit : Reality Watch

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