Spain's billionaires—the wealthiest people—earned an average of 77 million euros a day last year. This amount is equivalent to the earnings of one million workers. This is according to Oxfam Intermón's traditional report on inequality, published annually just before the start of the Davos summit.

Spain has gained eight new billionaires in the last year, bringing the total number of people with this level of wealth in the country to 32. Those who have joined this exclusive club, along with a fashion entrepreneur—specifically Amancio Ortega, the main shareholder of Inditex—driven the increase in billionaire wealth in Spain to $213.1 billion (€182.5 billion at the current exchange rate), representing 5% of the 2025 billionaire ambitions of the Swiss bank UBS. In Catalonia, the wealthiest individual is Sol Daurella, from the family that controls Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), who succeeded Mango founder Isak Andic, who died tragically.

Things are going well for the richest. Much more so than for the rest, although global poverty is declining worldwide due to economic growth, although the COVID crisis halted this trend. And, at the same time, inequality is growing, not so much between countries but within them, with an ever-widening gap in societies between those who have the most and those who have the least. The richest 1% have stabilized their share of global wealth at around 40%, below the levels of the neoliberal policies inaugurated by Ronald Reagan in the US and Margaret Thatcher in the UK during the period from 1980 to the mid-2000s, a period in which they became the owners.

She put on pearl earrings, fake pearls. And she set foot in the most exclusive neighborhood in Paris for the first time. It was September 2012, and sociologist Alizée Delpierre, who had been researching the relationship between the wealthy and their servants for some time, decided it was essential to see and experience it firsthand. That's why she worked as a nanny in the homes of the super-rich. The result of the investigation is Serving the rich (Editorial Península).