A surge in Amazon stock on the morning of July 27 has increased CEO Jeff Bezos' net worth by $1.1 billion, officially making him the world's richest person.

Aside from displacing Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates in the top spot, the new distinction could fuel Bezos' interest in furthering human progress through for-profit companies. And those efforts could produce big shifts in how the world's wealthiest think about philanthropy.</p>
<p>"I think his activities to-date suggest he looks at some of his business investments as opportunities to advance social change," Jane Wales, CEO of the Global Philanthropy

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It's a fact that if the Top 100 richest people in the world come together to take care of the world, there would be no more material inadequacy or starvation, which will in turn kill other negative vices that would inevitably lead to world peace and a thoroughly blissful existence but humans..

If from the day you are born, you start spending N150,000 each day from then for 100 years, you'll have only spent N5billion naira.