貝佐斯不再孤獨，蓋茨晉升千億美元富豪

彭博社一直在跟蹤約2800位億萬富翁的財富變動情況，其中145人身家至少100億美元，構成了百億美元“天團”。現在全球又同時出現了兩位千億美元巨富。

彭博億萬富翁指數顯示，昔日全球首富、微軟公司的聯合創始人比爾·蓋茨的個人財富再度邁過1000億美元大關，原本只有亞馬遜的首席執行官杰夫·貝佐斯一人的千億美元“俱樂部”變成雙雄并立。

蓋茨的財富目前剛超過1000億美元，本世紀初互聯網泡沫階段以來從未達到如此高的水平。互聯網泡沫期間，亞馬遜的創始人貝佐斯才剛剛開始向全球富豪榜進軍。現在貝佐斯身家1456億美元，單單今年以來就增加了207億美元，蓋茨去年身家增加了95億美元。

兩位巨富資產迅速增加，也顯示出美國社會的貧富差距擴大。掌握資本最多的階層資產增值速度最快，與全球趨勢相同。法國奢侈集團LVMH的創始人伯納德·阿諾特坐擁862億美元資產，約相當于法國經濟總量的3%。西班牙的服裝業大亨阿曼西奧·奧特加的資產凈值相當于西班牙GDP的5%。格魯吉亞的企業家畢齊納·伊萬尼什維利的財富約為格魯吉亞GDP的三分之一。

不過，蓋茨和貝佐斯掌握巨額財富的時間可能不會太長。蓋茨已經向比爾及梅琳達·蓋茨基金會捐贈了超過350億美元，并表示有意捐出至少一半個人財富。貝佐斯可能也會放棄部分財富，但原因和蓋茨不同：他和妻子麥肯齊正在鬧離婚。（財富中文網）

譯者：Pessy

審校：夏林

Bloomberg tracks the fortunes of some 2,800 billionaires. Of those, 145 are worth at least $10 billion, making them decabillionaires. Now, the world contains two centibillionaires simultaneously.

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, once the world’s richest person, has again eclipsed the $100 billion threshold, joining Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos in the exclusive club, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Gates’s fortune, now $100 billion on the nose, hasn’t reached such heights since the dot-com boom, when Bezos was only beginning his march up the world’s wealth rankings. The Amazon founder is now worth $145.6 billion, having added $20.7 billion this year alone, while Gates has gained $9.5 billion in 2018.

These two fortunes underscore a widening wealth gap in the U.S., where those with the most capital are accumulating riches the fastest. It’s also a worldwide trend. France’s Bernard Arnault has an $86.2 billion fortune, equal to about 3 percent of his country’s economy. The net worth of Spain’s Amancio Ortega represents 5 percent of that nation’s gross domestic product. And then there’s Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose worth about a third of Georgia’s GDP.

The Gates and Bezos mega-fortunes may not last long. Gates has donated more than $35 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and said he intends to give away at least half of his wealth. Bezos, meanwhile, may be about to cede some of his fortune for a different reason: he and his wife Mackenzie are divorcing.