The only acceptable number, but not only in Europe, everywhere, is “0”.

And if you already don’t know why: a billionaire has way too much money and power, and can influence governments in their favor, creating unsurmountable inequality and subverting the system’s rules. Billionaires are the cause why capitalism is failing (and since no one can stop them now, it will completely fail, and will drag the environment, and human survival, with it).

I think the better comparison would be the number of billionaires per capita. Say, per million people. Not that this isn’t a good infographic - keep the overall count. But include the per capita as a frequency-of-occurrence stat.

We need an EU wide 100% wealth tay for any wealth over say 15million€. I am willing to negotiate about the second number.

This is obligatory viewing.

That's a lot of food to eat. Better get started.

Trickle down economics works like a piñata. Once you break it open with blunt force, the stuff you want starts to trickle down!

Only 3 in Monaco ? *suspicious*

That’s a lot of guillotines

It would make more sense to use per capita numbers.

These are eatable numbers

Am I the only one who finds the color scheme unintuitive? (a comment more suitable for DataIsBeautiful, probably)

It’s important to remember that while all billionaires are bastards, some are just evil because they take value they neither earned nor need, meanwhile others got rich off being the family whose spat between cousins was WWI and are actively working to undermine left wing and pro equality movements literally today including conspiring to push bigotry towards lgbt people to distract from the class war

Is this based on nationality (defined as: has that nations passport) or billionaires actually living in that country? Because probably many billionaires don't live in their home country or pay taxes there

didn't know we had so many billionaires!

Portugal's only billionaire might be Abramovich, who gained PT nationality through a very dubious program

Another reason why Portugal is doing it right

The one billionair in Estonia:

Surprising that monaco "only" has 3 billionaires.