Number of global ultra high net worth
individuals hits record high
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/21/2022 4:42:22 PM
The ranks of the global “ultra high net worth” (UHNW) individuals swelled by 46,000 last year to a record 218,200 as the world’s richest people benefited from “almost an explosion of wealth” during the recovery from the pandemic. The number of UHNW people–those with assets of more than $50m (£43.7m)–jumped in 2021 as the super-rich benefited from soaring house prices and booming stock markets, according to a report by investment bank Credit Suisse. The number of people in the UHNW bracket has increased by more than 50% over the past two years. The huge increase in wealth of the richest 0.004% of the world’s adult population comes
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Why, it's almost as if it's being done by design, just as they said they'd do. Even worse, they're not content having our wealth redistributed to them. To be happy, the masters of the world also need us to be miserable, freezing hungry in the dark with no transportation, and maybe on masked disease lockdown for good measure. Meanwhile, they bask in obscene luxury and flit about on private jets for impromptu lunches in Paris or wherever they please. Our modern-day Marie Antionettes understand that the peasantry will stand for this without limit because we need to save the planet and combat inequality.