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American billionaires have gotten half a trillion richer during the pandemic, but the country's racial wealth gap has grown, too

The net worths of Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Zoom's Eric Yuan have grown by billions since March.

REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Dropbox; REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne; Taylor Nicole Rogers/Business Insider American billionaires are now nearly 20% richer — by $565 billion, to be exact — than they were at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report bySix billionaires, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Zoom's Eric Yuan, have seen their net worths grow by more than $2 billion each since March, according toThe coronavirus crisis has been an economic disaster for the rest of America, as an...

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You just solved the nation's problems. Let's take it from the billionaires and share it among racial minorities. That should solve two problems. First, it will rid us of billionaires. Second, it will narrow the country’s racial wealth gap.

Lol. Classic misdirection.

Well, end the nanny welfare state and let all people work and everyone will get richer.

Tell them

Rich people owns stocks, while poor people barely owns socks.

The system was already broken when we made the first billionaire. Now they're getting closer to a trillionaire. WHY DO WE HAVE A POVERTY RATE? - There shouldn't be any homeless population or poverty rate or unemployment rate when there are more than 500 billionaires.

'Richer'

That's because billionaires get wealthy owning stocks while the poor rely on their incomes which unfortunately were reduced or disappeared. Nothing sinister here BI, stop with your one sided articles.

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