{"id":41073,"date":"2019-10-05T03:22:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T03:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41073"},"modified":"2019-10-05T03:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T03:22:08","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-on-billionaires-no-one-deserves-to-have-that-much-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41073","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg on billionaires: &#8216;No one deserves to have that much money&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>Mark Zuckerberg, the fifth richest person in the world with many billions of dollars to his name, said he &#8220;understands&#8221; where Bernie Sanders is coming from when the Democratic presidential candidate says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/24\/politics\/bernie-sanders-ultra-wealth-tax-billionaires\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">billionaires shouldn&#8217;t exist<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I have an exact threshold on what amount of money someone should have, but on some level no one deserves to have that much money,&#8221; the <span>Facebook<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=FB&#038;source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">FB<\/a><\/span>)<\/span> CEO said during a town hall event at the company&#8217;s headquarters on Thursday in response to an employee question about Sanders&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/24\/politics\/bernie-sanders-ultra-wealth-tax-billionaires\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">comments<\/a>. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Zuckerberg currently has a net worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\">nearly $70 billion<\/a>, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Billionaires Index<\/a>. He has previously pledged to <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/12\/01\/technology\/zuckerberg-facebook-stock-daughter\/\" target=\"_blank\">give away 99% of his Facebook shares<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)Mark Zuckerberg, the fifth richest person in the world with many billions of dollars to his name, said he &#8220;understands&#8221; where Bernie Sanders is coming from when the Democratic presidential candidate says billionaires shouldn&#8217;t exist. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I have an exact threshold on what amount of money someone should have,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}