We'll see if the people actually get sick and tired of seeing headlines like this while being asked by the same billionaires to donate so families who can barely make rent can eat while free school lunches are canceled.
Is there so little to report that taking the average growth of his wealth for the last 5 years and extrapolating for the next 5 is worthy news? This is an absolutely worthless prediction. How can this be journalism?
Some company makes an estimation as trivial (and speculative) as what anyone could produce an Excel?<p>This is not news. This is clickbait advertising.
`The company said their projection is based on taking the average percentage of yearly growth over the past five years and applying it to future years.`<p>Past results are not an indicator of future performance.
First publicly known trillionaire*<p>There is a lot of money out there not easily tracked. There are speculations over some shadier character's net worth, probably most notable is Putin.