Billionaires’ wealth rises to $10.2 trillion amid Covid crisis

On one hand, due to the corona in the world, people’s lives came on the streets, they were left with bread. More than one and a half million people have lost their lives and millions of people are unemployed and are forced to bear the brunt of poverty, on the other hand, more than 2,200 billionaires in the world collectively made $ 1.9 trillion in 2020. Billionaires have earned nearly two trillion dollars.

According to Forbes, the fate of billionaires continued to shine amid the epidemic that occurred a year earlier. Tesla Inc. co-founder Elon Musk became the second richest person in the world. The 49-year-old entrepreneur’s total assets rose from $ 7.2 billion to $ 127.9 billion, another jump in Tesla’s stock price. Musk has added $ 100.3 billion to its net worth this year.

It was the second-best year for Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man. Bezos increased its assets by $ 67.5 billion in 2020 to $ 182 billion. Facebook founder Zuckerberg is also named among the earners of the Corona era. They have increased their wealth from $ 54.7 billion to $ 95.5 billion.

According to a report, around 27 million people worldwide are in a state of extreme poverty and have reached the brink of starvation. In contrast, there are more than two thousand people in the world, whose assets are more than eight billion dollars.