Axios: 5 richest … when altruism exists

Charted: 5 richest (with a twist)
 
A stacked bar chart showing the worldData: Forbes. Chart: Axios Visuals

Reranking the world’s billionaires … by altruism.

Forbes calculated how much the biggest billionaire givers would be worth if you added donations back into their net worths.

Elon Musk — the world’s richest person by nearly $600 billion — still holds the top spot, “but he loses serious ground to his more charitable contemporaries.” Musk has disbursed just 0.06% of his fortune to those in need.

In the rerank, Bill Gates would be the second-wealthiest person in the world instead of the 19th.

In third: Warren Buffett, who has “donated more than 278,000 Class A shares of his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway — worth some $200 billion if he still held them.

The intrigue: “MacKenzie Scott, who climbs 58 rungs when adding back her immense charitable giving, to No. 26. Meanwhile, her ex-husband Jeff Bezos, who has given far less to charity, drops out of the planet’s top five in our rerank.”Go deeper.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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