Although the figures of wealth and income disparities are already staggering in wealthier Western countries, they are significantly worse in countries like India and China. One instance that clearly depicts the disparity is the fact that an average Indian would need to work 17 million years to become as wealthy as Mukesh Ambani.
According to Forbes' yearly billionaires ranking, Elon Musk has surpassed Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos as the world's richest man. Thus far, the Tesla entrepreneur has amassed $219 billion, whereas Bezos has dropped $6 billion in a year and is currently worth $171 billion. Based on average yearly national salaries, no ordinary individual could ever aspire to accumulate the wealth of their country's richest billionaire by doing a normal job, as Statista's Florian Zandt illustrates in the graphic below.
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To achieve Musk's wealth proportions, for instance, the ordinary American would have to devote three mill...
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