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Hello and welcome to Six Minute English, the program where we bring you an interesting topic and six items of vocabulary.
I'm Neil.
And I'm Catherine.
Today we're taking a look into the lives of the super rich and we're going to look at one of their favourite pastimes.
The super rich are people with over $30 million of assets.
Oh, now, assets are things that we can own and sell, like property, boats and private planes.
Expensive toys.
First things first, let's do our question, Catherine,
in which country is the percentage of super rich expected to grow fastest over the next 10 years?
Is it A, China, B, Brazil or C, Vietnam?
I'm going to go for Vietnam.
I think that's an up and coming country and I think there's going to be a lot of growth in wealth in the future.
Okay, well, we'll find out if you're right or wrong later.
The number of super rich are expected to increase by 43% over the next decade.
Now, this doesn't mean income is rising at the same speed for everyone.
You might remember a report last year, which said the world's richest 62 individuals owned as much as the poorest 50% of people in the whole world.
So, my question is, what on earth the people with so much money spend it on?
One academic in the UK has been researching just that, and her answer is Neil.