A list of the richest people in the world

Whether they are the happiest people in the world is another story, but swimming in money to the extent that even Scrooge McDuck gets jealous, that works. And the fun part is that they are almost all self-made billionaires. Fortunately, there is one woman in the top 15 who also got rich with cosmetics; heaven. Here’s a little list.

1. Elon Musk

A few weeks ago, he knocked Jeff Bezos off the top spot. Elon Musk is of course the man behind Tesla. He is named after Nikola Tesla, the inventor, electrical engineer, and physicist.

2. Jeff Bezos

If anyone is spinning yarn during the corona crisis, it’s Jeff Bezos, because as the boss of Amazon, it’s good farming now that our adage ‘just order, just order, just order’ is.

What is also a lucrative job is marrying Jeff Bezos. His ex got 35 billion and immediately landed in third place among the richest women.

3. Bernard Arnault and family

Making money with the most beautiful brands on earth: Louis Vuitton, Moët Hennessy, and all the wonderful fashion and cosmetic brands is quite a delight, isn’t it?

4. Bill Gates

And what a wonderful person he is for giving so much money to good causes and research.

5. Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg is so rich that in 2018 he earned 1.7 million dollars per hour. It takes him less than an hour and a half to earn what an average highly educated person earns in their entire life.

Then the highest-ranked woman: Francoise Bettencourt Meyers has 171 billion and does not have a place in the top 10, but whether she loses sleep over it; I don’t know. The nicest rich man might be Tim Cook, the big man of Apple. He is the first of the Fortune 500 to publicly come out as gay and is considering giving his entire fortune to a good cause. Hats off, Tim!