Who are the billionaires of the world? And how much are they worth?

20. Ma Huateng (China)

Chairman of Tencent Holdings
Age: 47
Net worth: $38.8 billion

19. Steve Ballmer (U.S.)

Former CEO of Microsoft; current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
Age: 62
Net worth: $41.2 billion

18. Rob Walton (U.S.)

Chairman, Walmart
Age: 74
Net worth: $44.3 billion

17. Alice Walton (U.S.)

Walmart heir; chair, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Age: 69
Net worth: $44.4 billion

16. Jim Walton (U.S.)

Walmart heir; chairman and CEO, Arvest Bank Group, Inc.
Age: 70
 Net worth: $44.6 billion

15. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family (France)

Chairwoman of family's L'Oreal holdings and granddaughter of L'Oreal's
founder
Age: 65
Net worth: $49.3 billion

14. Sergey Brin (U.S.)

President, Alphabet Inc.
Age: 45
Net worth: $49.8 billion

13. Mukesh Ambani (India)

Chairman, Reliance Industries
Age: 61
Net worth: $50 billion

11 (tie). David Koch (U.S.)

Co-majority shareholder, Koch Industries
Age: 78
Net worth: $50.5 billion
11 (tie). Charles Koch (U.S.)
CEO, Koch Industries
Age: 83
Net worth: $50.5 billion

10. Larry Page (U.S.)

CEO, Alphabet
Age: 45
Net worth: $50.8 billion

9. Michael Bloomberg (U.S.)

Co-founder, Bloomberg
Age: 77
Net worth: $55.5 billion

8. Mark Zuckerberg (U.S.)

Co-founder and CEO, Facebook
Age: 34
Net worth: $62.3 billion
7. Larry Ellison (U.S.)
Co-founder, Oracle
Age: 74
Net worth: $62.5 billion

6. Amancio Ortega (Spain)

Co-founder, Zara
Age: 82
Net worth: $62.7 billion

5. Carlos Slim Helu & family (Mexico)

Honorary chairman, América Móvil
Age: 79
Net worth: $64 billion
Credit: Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP

4. Bernard Arnault & family (France)

Chairman and CEO, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton

Age: 69
Net worth: $76 billion
 3. Warren Buffett (U.S.)
CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
Age: 88
Net worth: $82.5 billion

2. Bill Gates (U.S.)

Co-founder, Microsoft
Age: 63
Net worth: $96.5 billion

1. Jeff Bezos and family (U.S.)

CEO, Amazon
Age: 55
Net worth: $131 billion
Bezos became the first person to top $100 billion on the Forbes list of
billionaires in early 2018. His recently announced divorce has launched
speculation about whether estranged wife MacKenzie will land among the world's
richest women.
Why do some billionaires commit suicide?

Why Would Successful People Commit Suicide?

By : Menard June 11, 2018 Category : Happiness Tags: Anthony Bourdain,

Death, Kate Spade, Robin Williams, Suicide

Why successful people kill themselves

You’ve seen it in the news, especially during an economic depression. A person

loses his job, can’t find a new one, runs out of options, and then kills self. In more
tragic cases, he takes his whole family with him. If you think having a job is
stressful, try not having a job when you have a family to support.

People in their 50’s and older are especially vulnerable. They’ve worked long
enough to acquire the necessary experience to tackle the job they are well-suited
for, but only end up discriminated during job searches for being too old. And
when they can’t bounce back into a career that they’ve defined themselves with,
they lose their identity, and consequently, their hope. Losing their standing in
society is a big blow to their ego.

Adult suicide is typically correlated to their socio-economic status. The lower the
person’s standing in the society (based on income, education, or occupation), the
higher the hazard ratio for suicide risk.

So it comes as a surprise when successful people kill themselves.

Robin Williams, Kate Spade, and Anthony Bourdain

Not long ago, it was comedian Robin Williams– loved by tens of millions of people
worldwide. Williams pretty much achieved everything an actor could hope to
accomplish in television and movies.
 Won Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Won multiple Grammys, Emmys, Golden Globe awards

Movies grossed more than $5.1 billion worldwide

Recently it was designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. Like
Williams, both are multi-millionaires and most probably achieved Financial
Independence many times over.

Spade launched a very successful New York-based handbag company, which was
eventually sold to Neiman Marcus for tens of millions of dollars. She had a
husband and a teenaged daughter. Her net worth was estimated to be
somewhere between $150 to $200 million.

Bourdain was a globe-trotting chef, a widely-read author, and television

personality. He achieved the pinnacle of his success making televised food
documentaries, introducing viewers to the strangest street food that he can find
in remote corners of the world. His open-mindedness and respect for various
cultures have earned him the love and admiration of millions of people
worldwide.

What lay beneath the cover of happiness and success, however, was severe
depression. And that ultimately led them to commit suicide.

Abuse of drugs could be the common denominator

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Robin Williams’ battle with addiction dated
back more than 30 years. He struggled with cocaine and alcohol abuse in the early
80’s. Williams was even with John Belushi during the Saturday Night Live star’s all-
night cocaine and heroin binge that led to his fatal overdose.

Spade suffered from depression and anxiety for many years. She was actively
seeking help and working closely with her doctors to treat her disease– at least
according to sources close to her. Many unconfirmed sources reported that she
was “drinking a lot” and a “major alcoholic”. Alcohol is a legal drug that can
seriously impair your judgment and intellectual abilities over the long term.
Bourdain readily admitted abusing drugs in the ’80s. In Kitchen Confidential, he
wrote, “We were high all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in at every
opportunity to ‘conceptualize’”. He wrote further, “Hardly a decision was made
without drugs. Pot, quaaludes, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in
honey and used to sweeten tea, Seconal, Tuinal, speed, codeine and, increasingly,
heroin, which we’d send a Spanish-speaking busboy over to Alphabet City to get.
We worked long hours and took considerable pride in our efforts-the drugs, we
thought, having little effect on the end-product.”

cdc_substance_abuse_suicide_risk

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

There’s a complicated relationship between substance abuse and suicide. What

experts know is that if someone has an alcohol or drug problem, they are more
likely to have suicidal thoughts. In the above chart, for example, over 35% of
people who committed suicide have been tested positive for alcohol or
antidepressants.

When people feel unhappy, they’re more likely to turn to substance abuse to feel
artificial happiness. They are also more likely to contemplate ending their lives.

Related: What is a Life Well-Lived? (Hint: It’s not about having lots of money)

Money can make you happy, but only up to a certain point

Happiness brought by a sudden windfall of money is temporary. Once your wants

have been met, the excitement quickly wanes like flowers under the scorching
sun. Money doesn’t really change people. It only makes you more of what you
already are. If you’re a sad person, money can only make you a rich sad person.

Williams, Spade, and Bourdain had arguably successfully achieved Financial

Independence, but they obviously failed miserably in their individual pursuit of
happiness. I can’t help but assume that they failed to find fulfillment in their lives.
Otherwise, they would not have killed themselves. Success without fulfillment is
worthless.
It only goes to show that Financial Independence is just a means to an end. It
should never be our end goal. Rather, you and I should find that one thing that
can fulfill us.

Only then can we truly be happy.