{"id":1058485,"date":"2023-04-12T05:56:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=279020"},"modified":"2023-04-12T05:56:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:56:22","slug":"ten-men-1-trillion-and-the-personalization-of-american-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/04\/12\/ten-men-1-trillion-and-the-personalization-of-american-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Men, $1 Trillion, and the Personalization of American Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes just released its ranking of the richest individuals in the world.\u00a0 Topping the list is Frenchman Bernard Arnault of LVHM, the fashion and cosmetics empire, with a net wealth of $211 billion.\u00a0 Yet if we focus simply the\u00a0 ten wealthiest in the world, seven of them are located in the US, with a combined wealth of $786 billion.\u00a0 The ten richest Americans, including the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos,\u00a0 Larry Ellison, and Michael\u00a0 Bloomberg, \u00a0total $1 trillion dollars.\u00a0 And this list does not even include the Waltons who own the Walmart empire or the\u00a0 Koch family.\u00a0 Of the twenty-five richest individuals in the world seventeen are American. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/12\/ten-men-1-trillion-and-the-personalization-of-american-capitalism\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/12\/ten-men-1-trillion-and-the-personalization-of-american-capitalism\/\">Ten Men, $1 Trillion, and the Personalization of American Capitalism<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes just released its ranking of the richest individuals in the world.\u00a0 Topping the list is Frenchman Bernard Arnault of LVHM, the fashion and cosmetics empire, with a net wealth of $211 billion.\u00a0 Yet if we focus simply the\u00a0 ten wealthiest in the wo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058941,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058485\/revisions\/1058941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}