Last Tuesday the news went around the world: Jeff Bezos accumulated, in just one day, another 13 billion dollars to his colossal fortune that, they say, is quantified at 186 billion dollars.
This had never happened in the history of the richest and the greatest fortunes.
With only one risk on the calendar, a single person won an amount that, I confess, I have a lot of difficulties in visualizing what it represents.
Among the various comparative exercises that were carried out, it was concluded that the wealth of the owner of Amazon exceeded the value of some of the largest multinationals, namely Nike, McDonald’s, from Starbucks or that his current fortune is worth 30 times that of the Queen of England.
Bezos’ historic achievement is due to the impact of the covid-19. His company is one of the reliable ones for online shopping and with half the world closed at home, he used his services to continue shopping. As a note, let it be said that Amazon has increased 73% since the beginning of our nightmare.
Now, it was also during these days that the Angolan government was forced to take to the National Assembly the approval of an amending State Budget. Measure imposed by the impact of the pandemic on oil prices, the country’s main source of revenue. The first Budget had been made with the price of the raw material at 55 dollars, now priced to 33 dollars.
All told, all that the Angolan State can spend this year are … $ 13 billion.
13 billion to be used to serve .. 32 million Angolans.
A day in the life of Jeff Bezos represents a year of health, education, support for industry or agriculture and everything else that the rule of law must guarantee to its citizens.
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*Publisher of the Portuguese edition of Plataforma
