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MAORIWEALTH 63
UNDS 58
SOCIALISM 61
BABIES 50
What would an atlas of the world’s
wealth look like? As with old maps, it
would be marked by stretches of terra
incognita: assets hidden in offshore
shell corporations, investment portfolios
managed by
black-box
computers.
It would also be
imbalanced, with resources piling
up along narrow gold coasts populated
by a relative few. In our survey
of wealth and the power
that accrues to it, you’ll learn
why a dynasty in South Korea is fighting
to protect its position and how an
indigenous community in New Zealand
is working to rebuild wealth
lost to colonization. You’ll
see how money’s secret influence is
being contested in India
and why art may be stashed
in a warehouse instead of
hung on a billionaire’s wall. As with those
old maps, wealth’s borders may prove
temporary—so we’ve included ideas
from people who want to redraw them.
May 27, 2019BILLIONAIRES 68