Five white males, 13 million families, 5 billion people
THE combined wealth of five white males — Elon Musk of Tesla, Jess Bezos of Amazon, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Bernard Arnault of LVMH and Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway — was $453 billion in 2019, poverty and inequality tracker Oxfam said. The coronavirus pandemic years failed to stop them from growing their wealth, which almost doubled to $869 billion in the closing days of 2023.