The number of billionaires has surpassed 3,000, with Elon Musk becoming the first person to hold over half a trillion dollars in wealth. However, this extreme wealth concentration is happening amidst widespread hunger, with one in four people globally facing food insecurity. The issue isn’t just the lavish spending of billionaires, but how they use their wealth to influence politics, governments, and media, undermining democracy and fairness. As US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, ‘We must make our choice. Either we can have extreme wealth in the hands of the few, or we can have democracy. We cannot have both’. This report is about that choice.