Who is the richest person in the world? It's not Jeff Bezos anymore.

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Corrections/clarifications: A previous version of this story included an incorrect reference to the person who flew into space in a Blue Origin rocket.

The Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people in mid-2022 is mostly full of technology moguls. Forbes catalog of the wealthy started in 1982 with the Forbes 400, which lists the 400 richest Americans. The person at the top of the 1982 list was Daniel Keith Ludwig, a shipping magnate who also had other business ventures. In current iterations, Forbes includes the person's net worth, a philanthropy score and a self-made score. Both George Soros and Rihanna have self-made scores of 10, citing their underprivileged backgrounds before working their way into wealth.

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