During the first two years of the Corona virus, when poverty and inequality were on the rise everywhere, the 10 richest people in the world doubled their wealth.
According to a report by the charity Oxfam, the wealth of these 10 people had increased from seven hundred billion dollars to one and a half trillion dollars. That is, their wealth averaged 1.3 billion a day.
The report states that the wealth of these billionaires has not increased as much during the last 14 years as during the Corona virus epidemic.
It happened at a time when the world economy was in the throes of the biggest financial crisis since the 1929 Wall Street crash.
Oxfam has called the inequality "economic violence" in its report, saying that 21,000 people die every day because they do not have access to medical care and are exposed to hunger, climate change and sexual violence. Face to face
The report further states that the epidemic has pushed 160 million people into poverty and has affected women and non-white ethnic minorities in the West.
Oxfam has called for tax reform to fund vaccine development around the world and help prevent medical malpractice, the negative effects of climate change and sexual violence in order to save lives.
The charity has compiled the report with the help of Forbes, an American business magazine.
Forbes' list of the world's 10 richest men includes Tesla's Elon Musk, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Byrne, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer's Oracle. Former CEO Larry Ellison, American investor Warren Buffett and Bernard Arnault of the French group LVMH.
