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Apr 8, 2024 · If you’re a billionaire, each additional dollar is virtually meaningless, whereas if you are a person who is earning $2 a day, each additional dollar is really important to you. So, as wealth is created, that should make us lean towards favoring it going to the people with the least. Robeyns. Yes.
Mar 13, 2024 · As an answer to this fundamental moral question, I argue that we cannot tackle inequality only by focussing our efforts on reducing poverty and destitution. We also must do something about the other end of the wealth distribution. More concretely, we should be working towards a world without extreme wealth.
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.
“After a decade of analyzing and debating extreme wealth, I became convinced that we must create a world in which no one is super-rich—that there must be a cap on the amount of wealth any one ...
Apr 1, 2024 · “After a decade of analyzing and debating extreme wealth, I became convinced that we must create a world in which no one is super-rich—that there must be a cap on the amount of wealth any one ...
Jan 30, 2024 · We need to work politically toward a more caring society, a less harsh society, societies less into everybody for themselves and letting the richest among us win while others get left behind. I try to ask people to look for ways to contribute to a better society that fit their personality and skills.
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Jun 24, 2019 · 1. Introduction. Over the past decades, scholars have shown that economic inequalities are widening. Perhaps best-known of all is the work of Thomas Piketty (Citation 2014), who showed that disparities in wealth have been increasing in many countries, due to the improvement of the financial position of the 1% best off or more specifically the 0.1% best off.