One of the big misapprehensions people have is that, when they think of billionaires, they think of people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Those are actually the minority billionaires, most billionaires are people involved in hedge funds, they are bankers. And what are two thirds of banks? It’s real estate.
It gives a short description for the industry they get their wealth from. I used the browser’s inspector to grab the HTML and counted them up. Now, I note at a glance that it lists Mackenzie Scott as “Technology”, and a total of 5 Waltons as “Retail”; but I doubt “getting billions from your family” happens much more often in some industries than others, so the relative comparison seems probably reasonable.
~> p | grep -A1 'table-cell t-industry' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
[... omitting noise ...]
74 Technology
62 Finance
60 Industrial
53 Diversified
39 Consumer
36 Retail
33 Health Care
30 Energy
27 Food & Beverage
24 Real Estate
22 Media & Telecom
17 Commodities
12 Entertainment
11 Services
Oh, and if you want the U.S. specifically:
~> p | egrep -A1 'table-cell t-industry|table-cell t-country' | egrep -v '^--|<' | grep -A1 'United States' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
188 United States
115 --
40 Technology
37 Finance
16 Retail
15 Energy
11 Media & Telecom
11 Food & Beverage
11 Consumer
9 Diversified
8 Industrial
8 Entertainment
7 Services
7 Real Estate
6 Health Care
2 Commodities
Are you sure? Lars Doucet disagrees:
I looked around a bit, and found Bloomberg’s list of the top 500 billionaires: https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/
It gives a short description for the industry they get their wealth from. I used the browser’s inspector to grab the HTML and counted them up. Now, I note at a glance that it lists Mackenzie Scott as “Technology”, and a total of 5 Waltons as “Retail”; but I doubt “getting billions from your family” happens much more often in some industries than others, so the relative comparison seems probably reasonable.
Oh, and if you want the U.S. specifically:
Weight them by wealth too.