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Thomas Piketty: 'The future billionaires are preparing for us is dystopian'

17 October 2026 at 05:00

Most of the planet with incomes equivalent to €5,000 a month (nearly $5,600) by 2100. Average temperatures only 1.8 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Less meat, industry and mining. More health care and education. And who would lose out? The world’s Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellisons and Elon Musks. A tiny group of billionaires representing 0.001% of the population would see their share of global wealth fall from the current 6.4% to 0.05%, while the poorest 50% of the planet would rise from holding just 2% to 30%.

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French economist Thomas Piketty in Paris.

The dark side of Starship’s success: Musk sidelines NASA in his bid to dominate space

5 October 2026 at 12:13

Elon Musk is stepping on the gas with Starship. His flagship spacecraft, the largest ever built, entered orbit for the first time on Monday, and his space company, SpaceX, has already received approval from the U.S. federal government to accelerate the current testing phase and launch it twice more in October if it wishes.

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Image of the Starship S41 as it fired its engines to enter Earth orbit, 25 minutes after its launch from Starbase on September 28.
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