Wealth of the World's Richest People Doubled During the Pandemic

The report published by the international aid organization Oxfam revealed that the total wealth of the world’s 10 richest people doubled during the covid-19 pandemic. Oxfam's report, 'Inequality Kills', which revealed that the wealth of the 10 wealthiest people in the world increased during the epidemic, also showed that the number of people living at the poverty line increased. Oxfam's Head of England, Danny Sriskandarajah, said that 163 million more people began to live below the poverty line after the restrictions imposed on tourism, travel and trade with the closure measures enacted in the covid-19 epidemic. In the report, the 10 richest names in the world; It was noted that the total wealth of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Ballmer and Warren Buffet doubled during the epidemic period, exceeding $ 1.5 trillion. Oxfam's article said that rising economic, gender and racial inequalities, as well as existing inequality between countries, are 'shattering our world'. Gabriela Bucher, executive director of Oxfam International, said, "The covid-19 pandemic has made clear both the drive of greed and the political and economic system in which extreme inequality has become an instrument of economic violence."