Oxfam reported with reference to the report "An economy for the 99 percent" that the capital of the eight richest businessmen reached half of the world's population.
According to researchers, the "eight" richest include Microsoft founder Bill Gates (USA), Inditex founder Amancio Ortega (Spain), Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett (USA), Grupo Carso owner Carlos Slim Helu (Mexico), Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (USA), Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg (USA), Oracle CEO Larry Ellison (USA) and the head of Bloomberg LP Michael Bloomberg (USA). Thus, the fortune of these eight businessmen is equal to the combined fortune of 3.5 billion people.
The world's first trillion-dollar owner could appear in the world within 25 years, the report says. Moreover, every tenth inhabitant of the Earth has on hand less than two dollars a day.
At the end of 2016, it was reported that the richest people on the planet, according to Bloomberg, had grown rich by $ 237 billion since the beginning of the year, and their total fortune reached $ 4.4 trillion.