貝佐斯不再孤獨(dú),蓋茨晉升千億美元富豪
彭博社一直在跟蹤約2800位億萬(wàn)富翁的財(cái)富變動(dòng)情況,其中145人身家至少100億美元,構(gòu)成了百億美元“天團(tuán)”。現(xiàn)在全球又同時(shí)出現(xiàn)了兩位千億美元巨富。
彭博億萬(wàn)富翁指數(shù)顯示,昔日全球首富、微軟公司的聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人比爾·蓋茨的個(gè)人財(cái)富再度邁過(guò)1000億美元大關(guān),原本只有亞馬遜的首席執(zhí)行官杰夫·貝佐斯一人的千億美元“俱樂(lè)部”變成雙雄并立。
蓋茨的財(cái)富目前剛超過(guò)1000億美元,本世紀(jì)初互聯(lián)網(wǎng)泡沫階段以來(lái)從未達(dá)到如此高的水平。互聯(lián)網(wǎng)泡沫期間,亞馬遜的創(chuàng)始人貝佐斯才剛剛開(kāi)始向全球富豪榜進(jìn)軍。現(xiàn)在貝佐斯身家1456億美元,單單今年以來(lái)就增加了207億美元,蓋茨去年身家增加了95億美元。
兩位巨富資產(chǎn)迅速增加,也顯示出美國(guó)社會(huì)的貧富差距擴(kuò)大。掌握資本最多的階層資產(chǎn)增值速度最快,與全球趨勢(shì)相同。法國(guó)奢侈集團(tuán)LVMH的創(chuàng)始人伯納德·阿諾特坐擁862億美元資產(chǎn),約相當(dāng)于法國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)總量的3%。西班牙的服裝業(yè)大亨阿曼西奧·奧特加的資產(chǎn)凈值相當(dāng)于西班牙GDP的5%。格魯吉亞的企業(yè)家畢齊納·伊萬(wàn)尼什維利的財(cái)富約為格魯吉亞GDP的三分之一。
不過(guò),蓋茨和貝佐斯掌握巨額財(cái)富的時(shí)間可能不會(huì)太長(zhǎng)。蓋茨已經(jīng)向比爾及梅琳達(dá)·蓋茨基金會(huì)捐贈(zèng)了超過(guò)350億美元,并表示有意捐出至少一半個(gè)人財(cái)富。貝佐斯可能也會(huì)放棄部分財(cái)富,但原因和蓋茨不同:他和妻子麥肯齊正在鬧離婚。(財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)) 譯者:Pessy 審校:夏林 |
Bloomberg tracks the fortunes of some 2,800 billionaires. Of those, 145 are worth at least $10 billion, making them decabillionaires. Now, the world contains two centibillionaires simultaneously.
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, once the world’s richest person, has again eclipsed the $100 billion threshold, joining Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos in the exclusive club, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Gates’s fortune, now $100 billion on the nose, hasn’t reached such heights since the dot-com boom, when Bezos was only beginning his march up the world’s wealth rankings. The Amazon founder is now worth $145.6 billion, having added $20.7 billion this year alone, while Gates has gained $9.5 billion in 2018.
These two fortunes underscore a widening wealth gap in the U.S., where those with the most capital are accumulating riches the fastest. It’s also a worldwide trend. France’s Bernard Arnault has an $86.2 billion fortune, equal to about 3 percent of his country’s economy. The net worth of Spain’s Amancio Ortega represents 5 percent of that nation’s gross domestic product. And then there’s Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose worth about a third of Georgia’s GDP.
The Gates and Bezos mega-fortunes may not last long. Gates has donated more than $35 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and said he intends to give away at least half of his wealth. Bezos, meanwhile, may be about to cede some of his fortune for a different reason: he and his wife Mackenzie are divorcing. |