I was reading the January 2025 billionaire rankings, and I was struck by how interesting it is to see the religious backgrounds of these figures. Elon Musk at the top with $421 billion from SpaceX and Tesla, openly an atheist. Then Jeff Bezos with $233 billion from Amazon, raised Catholic. And you notice that many of them have Jewish backgrounds: Ellison (Oracle), Zuckerberg (Meta), Brin (Google), and Sergey Brin of Alphabet. Jeff Bezos instead represents the Catholic component of the list, along with Buffett who is Presbyterian and Ballmer who is Protestant. Bernard Arnault of LVMH is another Roman Catholic in the top 10. Also interesting is that Larry Page is an atheist like Musk. Jensen Huang of Nvidia is the only one whose religion is not well known; he keeps that private. Anyway, it’s a ranking that makes you think about how wealth is distributed among different communities and backgrounds. What do you think about these data?

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