Oxfam, an organization that works to end poverty, has predicted the world will likely see its first trillionaire within 10 years.
乐施会是一个致力于消除贫困的组织,该组织预测,世界可能会在10年内出现第一位万亿富翁。
The prediction comes as the world's wealthiest nations gather in Davos, Switzerland for both public and private meetings. Leaders from more than 60 nations will be discussing issues including ongoing world conflicts, the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on businesses, climate change and the future of democracy.
这一预测是在世界上最富有的国家聚集在瑞士达沃斯举行公开和私人会议之际做出的。来自60多个国家的领导人将讨论包括正在发生的世界冲突、人工智能对商业的影响、气候变化和民主的未来等问题。
Oxfam often points out the huge wealth differences between the world's richest and poorest. It noted these differences had become "supercharged" since the COVID-19 pandemic.
乐施会经常指出,世界上最富有和最贫穷的人之间存在巨大的财富差距。它指出,自新冠病毒大流行以来,这些差异变得“异常显著”。
Oxfam noted the five wealthiest people in the world had seen their worth increase by over 100 percent since 2020. They include Elon Musk of Tesla, Bernard Arnault of the luxury goods company LVMH, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison of Oracle and Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett.
乐施会指出,自2020年以来,世界上最富有的五个人的财富增长了100%以上。他们包括特斯拉的埃隆•马斯克、奢侈品公司酩悦•轩尼诗-路易•威登集团的伯纳德•阿尔诺、亚马逊的杰夫•贝佐斯、甲骨文的拉里•埃里森和伯克希尔哈撒韦公司的首席执行官沃伦•巴菲特。
Amitabh Behar is Oxfam's current director. Behar said the world is entering a "decade of division." The group's leader noted that while the five wealthiest people had doubled their worth since 2020, "almost 5 billion people have become poorer."
阿米塔布•贝哈尔是乐施会现任主任,他表示,世界正在进入一个“分化的十年”。该组织的领导人指出,尽管自2020年以来,最富有的五个人的财富翻了一番,但“近50亿人变得更穷了”。
Behar predicted that in about 10 years, the world will have its first trillionaire. A trillionaire would be a person worth 1,000 billion dollars. Behar noted that the fight against poverty would take much longer, at least 200 years.
贝哈尔预测,在大约10年内,世界将出现第一个万亿富翁。万亿富翁指的是身价1万亿美元的人。贝哈尔指出,与贫困的斗争将需要更长的时间,至少需要200年。
The organization said it is possible the person who becomes the first trillionaire is not currently known, meaning the individual may not be one of the five wealthiest people today.
该组织表示,目前可能还不知道谁将成为第一个万亿富翁,这意味着他可能不在当今最富有的五人之列。
American John D. Rockefeller, of Standard Oil fame, is widely considered to have become the world's first billionaire in 1916.
美国标准石油公司的约翰•D•洛克菲勒被广泛认为在1916年已是世界上第一个亿万富翁。
Currently, Musk is the richest man on the planet, with a personal worth of just under $250 billion, Oxfam says. The organization makes its estimates based on data from the publication Forbes.
乐施会表示,目前,马斯克是地球上最富有的人,个人资产接近2500亿美元。该组织根据《福布斯》杂志的数据做出的此项估计。
While many of the rich got richer in the last four years, Oxfam says about 5 billion people became poorer during that time. This is because many poor nations could not provide financial support to their people when economies slowed down due to COVID-19.
虽然许多富人在过去四年里变得更富,但乐施会说,在这段时间里,大约有50亿人变得更穷。这是因为,在新冠肺炎疫情导致经济放缓的情况下,许多贫困国家无法向国民提供财政支持。
While the meeting in Davos only lasts until Friday, Oxfam said it will continue talking about wealth inequalities. This year's Group of 20 meeting of the world's most developed countries will be held this July in Brazil. Max Lawson is head of Oxfam's inequality policy department. He said that meeting will also be a good time to raise awareness about the problem of world poverty.
尽管达沃斯会议只持续到周五,但乐施会表示将继续讨论财富不平等问题。今年世界最发达国家的20国集团(G20)会议将于7月在巴西举行。马克斯•劳森(Max Lawson)是乐施会不平等政策部门的负责人。他说,这次会议也是提高人们对世界贫困问题认识的好时机。
Oxfam is calling on Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to include poverty problems in the developing world in G20 discussions. The group would like him to bring up issues such as a permanent wealth tax in every nation, stronger taxation of large companies and a campaign against tax avoidance.
乐施会呼吁巴西总统卢拉把发展中国家的贫困问题纳入20国集团的讨论议题中。该组织希望他能提出一些议题,比如每个国家征收永久性财富税、加强对大公司的征税,以及发起反对避税运动。
Oxfam said it looked at the world's wealthiest people based on rankings from Forbes in November 2023. For the poorest people, Oxfam looked at numbers from the UBS Global Wealth Report 2023 and the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook of 2019.
乐施会表示,他们是根据《福布斯》在2023年11月发布的排行榜对世界上最富有的人进行排名的。对于最贫穷的人,乐施会查看了瑞银《2023年全球财富报告》和瑞士信贷《2019年全球财富数据手册》中的数据。
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