THE WORLD OF RICHES & POUVERS

report by Gojko Drljaca Despite the crisis, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg became richer by $ 115 billion AUTHOR: Gojko Drljaca POSTED: 07/29/2020. at 11:22 AFP / Profimedia Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk The total wealth of Bezos, Zuckerberg and Musk alone this year, marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, increased to 115 billion dollars, which speaks of how the so-called. Big Tech companies are actually enjoying the current crisis without precedent. Related news On the eve of the fall in the number of infected people, Google told the workers to stay at home until the middle of 2021 Managers of pharmaceutical companies have made a billion dollars by selling stories about the COVID vaccine Only the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, can say that he is richer by 63.8 billion dollars this year. In a single single day this month, his fortune grew by $ 13 billion. Bezos is currently the richest inhabitant of the planet with a fortune of more than 200 billion euros. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, is $ 9.1 billion richer this year. The biggest gainer in stock price growth during the Covid-19 pandemic is Tesla CEO Elon Musk. His fortune doubled to $ 69.7 billion. The total wealth of the so-called tech billionaires according to the Bloomberg index of the 500 richest people doubled from 751 billion in 2016 to 1,400 billion today. Such wealth growth cannot be compared to any other sector. Although most billionaires are getting richer and richer, not everyone is doing well. Among the top 10 richest, the wealth of Bernard Arnault and Warren Buffett decreased. Unlike the two of them, among the ten richest seven, wealth is linked to technology holdings, and their total wealth is worth 666 billion dollars. This year alone, it has grown by 147 billion dollars. By the way, today the five largest technology companies (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft) have a value equal to 30 percent of US GDP. In 1900, the five largest American companies were worth about 6 percent of the national economy. No wonder, then, that an exciting day is expected in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday where he will interrogate the giants of high-tech companies over growing concerns about their over-dominance. Daily reading recommendations