‘How their rotten system works’: Global billionaire wealth surged to record $10.2 trillion amid COVID-19 catastrophe
While Covid-19 has taken the lives of over one million people across the globe and exacerbated economic precarity for millions more, the combined wealth held by the world’s 2,189 billionaires has skyrocketed—increasing by 27.5% between April and July 2020 and reaching a record high of $10.2 trillion. “Billionaire wealth equates to a fortune almost impossible […]