Money to money. Why global inequality and the growth of super-wealth have reached record levels
In other words, finances are concentrated in the same families for generations, which strengthens the wealth of the elite. Children of rich parents, in turn, can afford a better education and have more business opportunities, that is, it is a closed system that reproduces itself. However, many, if not most, of the current leaders of the Forbes list - such as Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg - were not heirs to financial empires.