Before we anticipate the standouts of this year, wealth-wise, let us re-look at the Forbes400 2021 list.
and Bill Gates. This is the first time Gates has not been in one of the top two spots in three decades. Gates and Melinda Gates had announced in May that the pair were divorcing after 27 years, and soon after he transferred her about US$5.7 billion worth of stock in companies like Deere & Co and Canadian Railway.
Melinda French Gates appears on The Forbes 400 for the first time this year at No. 158 worth an estimated US$6.3 billion.The minimum net worth needed to gain—or hold onto—a spot on the list this year jumped to US$2.9 billion. For the prior three years, the cutoff had been US$2.1 billion.
Lists such as this Forbes 400 are examples of how we have idolised people who have amassed a significant amount of wealth and have attributed them qualities such as being more hardworking and intelligent than we are. However, we seem to be forgetting that the amount of money in your bank has no bearing on what kind of person you are. Perhaps what wedoInterestingly, Forbes gives its 400 members a philanthropic score of how generous they are, and this year the numbers are lower than ever. Members who gave away more than 20% of their net worth has decreased from ten to eight, and those who gave away less than 1 per cent of their wealth rose from 127 to 156. They are given a score of 1 to 5, 5 being the highest.
If they could not find any information about a person’s giving or declined to comment, they were given a score of N/A. A majority of the list scored a 1 or N/A. Bezos, the richest man in the world received a score of 1 despite announcing a US$200 million pledge to the Smithsonian.
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