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Mar 6, 2024 · The effects of excessive wealth can be seen throughout US society—in the high rents resulting from private equity acquisition of housing, in tax structures, and in billionaire domination of our political system. If we are serious about narrowing the racial wealth gap, this silence needs to change. It’s time to change public policy to do ...
Apr 8, 2024 · Why We Need Limits on Extreme Wealth. 2024 Jan/Feb Details. An introduction to limitarianism, and why there should be an upper limit on how much money people can accumulate. Current Affairs. filed 08 April 2024 in Interviews. Ingrid Robeyns is a professor at Utrecht University, where she specializes in political philosophy and ethics.
Nov 23, 2022 · The second argument in favor of preventing extreme wealth accumulation, advanced by Robeyns and Robert Reich (2018), states that billionaires have an inappropriate amount of influence in public life, which undermines political equality. We argue that corporate leaders tend to be more accountable to their fellow citizens than public officials.
Jan 29, 2024 · Why should society limit extreme personal wealth? Excess wealth keeps the poor in poverty while inequality grows. Research shows that the lion’s share of the gains that economies wield go to ...
- Ingrid Robeyns
For example, Ingrid Robeyns argues that public officials should prevent people from amassing extreme wealth because billionaires’ resources would be better spent addressing morally important goals such as meeting disadvantaged people’s needs and solving collective action problems.2 Robert B. Reich states that billionaires have an inappropriate amount of influence in public life, which ...
- Christopher Freiman
Apr 5, 2024 · And in a small way, this has already started to happen – 250 millionaires and billionaires signed an open letter to world leaders at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos demanding a wealth tax.
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The second argument in favor of preventing extreme wealth accumulation, advanced by Robeyns and Robert Reich (2018), states that billionaires have an inappropriate amount of influence in public life, which undermines political equality. We argue that corporate leaders tend to be more accountable to their fellow citizens than public officials ...