The plague has made the world’s rich even richer, but has led to more people living in poverty, the Oxfam charity reported.
Lower incomes of the world’s poor in the last two years since the corona broke into our lives have contributed to the deaths of 21,000 people daily since the onset of the plague, the Oxfam charity report said. .
Oxfam usually publishes a report on global inequality at the beginning of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. At this event, leaders, corporation owners, politicians, celebrities, campaigners, economists and journalists gather at the Swiss ski resort for economic discussions.
But this year as last year, the event will be held at Zoom, due to the corona virus. According to Forbes magazine, the 10 richest people in the world are: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arno, Bill Gates, Larry Allison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Ballmer and Warren Buffett.
The sum of their wealth together increased from $ 700 billion to $ 1.5 billion between March 2020 and November 2021, there are significant differences between them, with Mr. Musk’s fortune increasing by more than 1,000%, while Mr. Gates’ increased “only” by 30% , The BBC reported.