MacKenzie Scott
Source of wealth: Amazon
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Biography
MacKenzie Scott is a philanthropist, author and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to whom she was married for 25 years. As part of their 2019 divorce, she received a 4% stake in the online retailer.
In May 2019, shortly after she announced the terms of the divorce on Twitter, she signed the Giving Pledge, promising to give away at least half of her wealth over the course of her lifetime.
On a website called Yield Giving, Scott shares details of the $19.3 billion she has given to more than 2,500 nonprofits.
Scott employs a "no strings attached" style of giving, wherein the nonprofits to which she donates have full control over how to best deploy the new funds.
Scott, who has published two novels, was a student of author Toni Morrison at Princeton and worked as a research assistant for her.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A MacKenzie Scott's fortune is equivalent to 227 of gold, but this may be difficult to value, as we don't usually have a handful of gold bars in our piggy bank.
A standard gold ring typically weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18k gold.
Based on today's gold price (not taking into account the jeweler's fee, shipping, or anything else), that gold ring would be worth $556.3
MacKenzie Scott could buy 60,496,933 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and a lot of gifts!!
And if the number of rings is difficult to visualize, all these rings would need 11 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that MacKenzie Scott will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare MacKenzie Scott's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
MacKenzie Scott could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 15.1 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, MacKenzie Scott could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 6.7 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
MacKenzie Scott could assume the entire cost of the education system of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with more than 243,000,000 inhabitants for 9.9 years.
Highest education spending
But not only could he assume the cost of a poor country, Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, MacKenzie Scott could pay for it in full for 13.5 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
MacKenzie Scott could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 260,000,000 of inhabitants, for 56.7 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of MacKenzie Scott with Israel, the country that currently invests the most per capita in research in the world, it could assume the total cost of the system for 1.3 years.
Financial Assets
Monthly wealth history
Fortune comparison
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