Five years ago, the promise of getting superrich from clean tech was in the air.
The suave discomforts of this masochistic minimalism is something that only the superrich can afford.
All told, heirs of the superrich paid taxes equal to 15.4% of the estate's total value.
Wireless phones that were once the obscure property of the superrich are now positively pedestrian.
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The misgivings about prosperity, at any rate, are not confined to the superrich.
The superrich on the Forbes 400 got even wealthier over the past year.
Jeff Greene got rich investing in real estate and superrich betting against it.
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While fewer members of the superrich donated to defeat Prop. 30, they donated significantly more in a losing effort.
Far from being hated, many of the superrich -- people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett -- became folk heroes.
That creates a dilemma for couples who are affluent but not superrich.
But many of the superrich prefer to give out of the spotlight.
Tax shelters were widespread, and not just for the superrich.
For the superrich, money can represent power, prestige, influence--or a certain measure of immortality, if it is ultimately used to finance some visible endeavor like finding a cure for cancer.
While it scales to the ultraniche, superrich PC gamer, Titan also caters to the more casual PC gamer (albeit one who's still willing to shell out a good amount of cash).
Eight of the top 10 are from the U.S., as are 271 of the entire pack--just over 50% of the world's superrich from little more than 4% of the world's population.
"No one could've predicted the emergence of the Russian superrich, but they are here now and they live in London, and part of living in London is going to the art auctions, " Dolman says.
Omidyar and others among the new superrich share something the rest of us feel about them: a gnawing unease that their massive, newly minted wealth somehow came a little too fast, a little too easily.
While they perhaps lack recognizable names, the community foundations, with their local roots and knowledge, will help you identify worthy local charities. (You can find one serving your community here.) Although the superrich tend to set up their own private foundations, Hurwitz says that the New York Community Trust counts three billionaires among its donors.
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