The obscene pay of CEOs, growing 20 times as fast as workers’ pay last year, and the obscene wealth in the tech world, with money cascading into the hands of greedy billionaires who lack empathy or even noblesse oblige.
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Maureen Dowd,
Mercury News,
4 July 2026
The accounts already have gotten a boost from billionaires beyond the $1,000 from the government.
Nearly 1 million people became millionaires in 2025, largely thanks to a thriving stock market, according to a new report by UBS.
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Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
2 July 2026
The young millionaires continued successfully appealing to tweens and teens, many of whom grew up watching the Olsens, and managed to turn their company into a billion-dollar empire, all while attending college at New York University.
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