Billionaires have always traveled in a different orbit _26_the rest of us: nicer things, morepower, rocket-launching stations. But 2020 threw that gulfinto stark relief. While much of the worldgrappled with soaring unemployment and plunging growth, the 0.001%_27_ from unp unprecedentedwealth creation. The world's 500 richest people added $1.8 trillion to their combined net worth thisyear and are now v worth S7.6 trillion on, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Equivalent to a31% increase, it's the biggest annual gain in the cight-year history of the index and a S3 trillion__28__ from the market's nadir in March 2020.        Globally, runaway gains by the super-rich have__29__ to populist movements and revivedinterest in hiking taxes. In Germa nany, the UK and someacademics are pushing to implement wealth taxes to rebuild governe states in the US, lawmakers, activists andment coffers dra Irained by thepandemic. "Surging billionaire wealth hits a painful nerve for the millions of people who have lostloved ones a and experienced declines in their health, wealth, and livelihoods," said Chuck Collins,director of the Program on Inequality and the Common n Good at the Institute for Policy Studies."Worse, it undermines any sense that we are 'in this together' - the __30__required to weather thedifficult months ahead."
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