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Since this is paywalled, here's the start of the article:

New members of the global super-rich gained more of their assets through inheritance than through wealth creation this year — the first time that this has been recorded by Swiss bank UBS in its nine years of surveying global billionaires.



A whole 9 years? Maybe this has more to do with the end of ZIRP monetary scheme than the already established fact that we live in an oligarchy.


That possibility is explicitly made in the article


Old billionaires are dying faster than new billionaires are being created (by things other than inheritance). Or more precisely, the total wealth of the billionaires who have died is bigger than the total wealth of billionaires who became billionaires by something other than inheritance.

But this wasn't true a decade ago. So wealth creation (at billionaire scale) is slowing down?


I suspect that wealth creation peaked generations ago, and now the richest generation is dying.

Also could be that tax "avoidance" is at an all-time high is a contributing factor.


Or a lot of billionaires are dying right now (Charlie Munger comes to mind)




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