Elon Musk on Monday released the third place in the list of the richest people in the world. He was ahead of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg after Tesla’s shares continued their rapid growth. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is updated at the end of each market day, as the Mask 111.9 billion compared to 111,2 billion, Zuckerberg.
the Status Mask has grown rapidly this year to 76,1 billion dollars on the background of increase in the cost of Tesla stock by more than 475 percent. The market value of Tesla in 454 billion dollars currently exceeds the market value of American retail giant Walmart Inc., the largest companies in the U.S. by revenue. Last week, the 49-year-old Musk joined Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and bill gates from Amazon in the club of richest billionaires. This contributed to a sharp increase in the value of shares of technology companies in the period of the pandemic. The mask, which last week showed the world chibiromano a pig, still has a long way to become the richest man in the world. State of Bezos, according to different sources, ranges from 200 to 270 billion dollars.
meanwhile, experts say, the rapid pace of wealth accumulation separate persona in recent months, in stark contrast to the deteriorating state of the global economy, whose growth has slowed sharply since, as the pandemic began, and companies were forced to lay off millions of workers. This greatly subsided consumer demand. The brunt of the economic problems are young and low paid workers whose jobs became more vulnerable to layoffs associated with the pandemic coronavirus.
Growing income inequality in the world and especially in America, causing a sharp reaction of many progressive politicians of the left. The former candidate for presidents of the United States Bernie in August, presented to the Senate the law on the taxation of “extraordinary growth of wealth” during a pandemic.
