Record number of billionaires in the world in 2011

The highest ever number of billionaires has been recorded.

More than 200 people joined the billionaires list in the past year as their numbers rose to a new record of 1,210.

Mexico's Carlos Slim has topped the latest Forbes magazine rich list, as his wealth grew by more than a third.

The telecoms magnate's fortune rose by $20.5bn (£12.65bn) to $74bn, again beating Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($56bn) into second place.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...-_n_833774.html#s251593&title=9_Mukesh_Ambani

 

Inflation in food costs makes biliionaires happen; they need their raise first.:2thumbsup:

 

with the global political shift rightwards there should be even more

nobody bothers counting the uncountable poor . . .

 

There is one ad going around on TV that states that 1 in 5 americans is having trouble putting food on the table. I don't know if its running back in Nd or not and ill find out next week but somebody has to count the uncountable and make it know to the people. Not simply the starving africans that we have seen all our lives on tv but the people right here in the US. In my opinion with the right wing assult on programs for the lower income It has become more important than it ever was to show and educate the public on who these people really are. Its people in our own areas whom have lived there all their lives, people you never would suspect in many cases. Id like to see those numbers counted and put on a piechart by race and gender. I think those findings will be a real eye opener and those numbers wont reflect what a lot of people assume are the largest numbers of poverty level people in this country.

 

^^^ would like to see urban/rural breakdowns too

people think about the inner city and forget about the open prairie . . .

 

And there would also be less sexual pro-creation according to the latest urbane concepts of post-modernism. The progressively higher birth rates can and must result in improved mass transportation. But none of this happening now in Toronto anyway. Instead the oracle of the limits to growth, HUH?

 

Toronto is spending tons of money right now to improve the subway system if I am not mistaken willedwill.

Rising numbers of billionaires does not surprise me, long ago in a world far away, there were no millionaires. Everyone makes more money then 100 years ago, in the future, a million dollars will not be that amazing to achieve, it already is not that amazing. But the poor will still be poor.

 

Objectively speaking, so what? It's the advance projected LRT system which is based on the need for subways in the suburbs where we wish better housing and with this convenience. It seemed to me that the ideas of transportation for the future of the city appear to be based on assumptions of growth that aren't tenable for the expectations in ideal global constraints. Poor people also live in the suburbs.:2thumbsup:

 

There's more billionaires today than ever before and gas just hit $4.00 a gallon for regular. It's all relative, a billionaire today is not as impressive as it it was say 50 years ago.
A guy may have a billion dollars, but those dollars sure the fuck don't buy very much anymore.

 

so i guess suddenly becoming a billionaire wouldn't be any different?

what could i get that i can't afford now, maybe eat out at the chinese restaurant once in a while?

pair of glasses, maybe get those wisdom teeth pulled . . .

am i running out of money yet?

 

My point was that you said Toronto is not working to improve mass transportation, but they are, some effort is different then no effort.

 

did I say that?
My point, which I thought was stated rather plainly, is what i said, making a billion dollars is not as great a feat as it was 50 years ago, nor is the worth of those billion dollars near what it was before.
Todays billionaire is probably equivalent to yesterdays multi-millionaire.

 

WTF you talkin' bout willis?...:mickey:

How Much Is A Billion?
Some Wall Street types (and others) make over a billion dollars a year – each year. How much is a billion dollars? How can you visualize an amount of money so high? Here is one way to think about it: The median household income in the US is around $29,000, meaning half of us make less and half make more. If you make $29,000 a year, and don’t spend a single penny of it, it will take you 34,482 years to save a billion dollars. . . . (Please come back and read the rest of this after you have recovered.)
http://www.alternet.org/economy/149..._country's_obscene_division_of_wealth/?page=1



ZW

 

This is a Gulfstream G550. You can pick one up for around $40 million, depending. Maybe $60 million top-of-the-line.
Your billion will buy you 25 of these.

 

This is a Maybach. Most people don’t even know there is something called a Maybach. The one in the picture, the Landaulet model, costs $1 million. (Rush Limbaugh, who has 5 homes in Palm Beach, drives a cheaper Maybach 57 S -- but makes up for it by owning 6 of them.)
Your $1 billion will only buy you a thousand Maybach Landaulets.

 

This is the Mardan Palace Hotel in Turkey, Burj Al Arab in Dubai.
Here is a photo gallery of some other expensive hotels, where people pay $20-30,000 per night. Yes, there are people who pay that much. Remember to send me a postcard!
A billion dollars will buy you a $20,000 room every night for 137 years.

 

Le Grand Bleu - $90 million.
Some people spend as much as $200 million or more on yachts.
You can buy ten $100 million yachts with a billion dollars.

 

Private Islands
If the rabble are getting you down you can always escape to a private island.

This one is going for only $24.5 million – castle included. You can only buy 40 of these with your billion.

 

One day with all his money and his store, Nels Oleson said to Charles Phillip Ingalls "I think you are the richest man in all of Walnut Grove" ...:love:

 

Yep.. What money got Nels was a greedy wife and rotton kids..