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The ranks of the monocle-wearing class are growing: Forbes has found there are now 3,028 billionaires on the planet. That’s a whole lot more than the 140 the magazine located when it started keeping a list in 1987. Twenty years later, there were 1,000 in total, and by 2017, the roll of the richest had reached 2,000. As of last year, there were 2,781. And it’s not just that there are more billionaires, it’s also that those in the rarest air are even richer than in years past—as of March 7, the world’s billionaires boasted a combined worth of $16.1 trillion, which is almost $2 trillion more than a year ago.
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