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Richie Rich gets Richer
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Richie Rich gets Richer

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Greece and Spain sink under sovereign debt while the world's wealthiest keep compounding their fortunes, and this report goes looking for the people living on the other side of that gap. Torsten Muller-Otvos of Rolls Royce describes customers with up to 100 cars in their garages, each one running about half a million dollars, and notes the company sold more cars last year than at any point in its hundred-year history. Manuel Koch tracks how expectations have shifted at the top: a three-million-dollar profit once counted as a triumph, while a company like Apple now reports six billion and calls it profit, not turnover. The numbers pile up alongside the cars: the rich have grown about six percent wealthier on average every year since 2009, Manhattan's billionaire count keeps climbing, and one in six Americans has no health insurance. Interviews with the wealthy themselves close the film, defending lower taxes on the grounds that their charitable giving already does the redistributing that governments would otherwise tax them for.