Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos own more wealth than the bottom 40% of people in America. They are the two richest persons in the world.
There have been a lot of debates over the wealth they possess. Earlier, US Senator and Chairman of Senate Budget Committee, Bernie Sanders had called Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for a hearing on income inequality in the US.
The United States Senator Bernie Sanders took a dig at both Jeff and Elon Musk on Twitter referring to their wealth earned, saying that such accumulation of revenue is ‘immoral’.
Bernie Sanders tweeted, “We are in a moment in American history where two guys — Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — own more wealth than the bottom 40% of people in this country. That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral. It is unsustainable.”
We are in a moment in American history where two guys — Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — own more wealth than the bottom 40% of people in this country. That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral. It is unsustainable.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 18, 2021
Replying to Bernie, Musk wrote, “I am accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary & extend the light of consciousness to the stars.”
I am accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary & extend the light of consciousness to the stars
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 21, 2021
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk is now ranked the world’s second-richest after Amazon’s Jeff Bezos whose wealth is $178 billion.
(Source: Live Mint)
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