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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.
Apr 5, 2024 · Developed countries with adequate social safety nets, such as her native Netherlands, should impose a limit of €10 million (£8.5 million) on individual personal wealth, according to Robeyns.
Feb 8, 2024 · In her own Dutch context, she takes about €1mn wealth level (twice the price of the average London flat) as the ethical limit we should personally be satisfied with, and €10mn as the political ...
Jun 12, 2021 · Opinion. Is it time to limit personal wealth? Tesla founder Elon Musk in Germany in September 2020. (Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images) Warren Buffett has an effective tax rate of 0.1 percent? Yawn.
Jan 17, 2024 · And that limit does not lie at a billion: Instead, we should look more in the range of $10 million as a hard cap on personal wealth. And we should encourage everyone to voluntarily not keep more ...
Jan 29, 2024 · There are two limits to wealth that we should consider: one political, the other ethical. They should be set at different levels. The political level should be democratically decided and embedded ...
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Apr 1, 2024 · Robeyns proposes two upper limits on personal wealth. Most countries with a solid social safety net should bake a 10-million-euro (approximately $10.8 million) cap into their social and fiscal ...