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Apr 8, 2024 · There should be no upper limit to wealth as long as the economic pie is growing and the poor are getting some of it. It doesn’t matter if the rich are getting much richer—they create wealth. Why should we care about the top, the upper limit, that you discuss in your book? Ingrid Robeyns.
Jan 30, 2024 · Your book highlights a number of wealthy people who share your horror over the rising maldistribution of our world’s wealth. Are the numbers of these concerned wealthy people growing enough to help make a real difference?
May 7, 2014 · Wealth concentration is at least partially caused by the scalability of modern enterprise. Consider Whatsapp - purchased for $19B (including $4B cash) with less than 100 employees. While allowing "too big to fail" enterprises to continue to exist is one of many ways to enable wealth concentration, the reality is that automation makes it ...
Jan 29, 2024 · Nov. 14, 2023. 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...
- Ingrid Robeyns
Jul 19, 2023 · Proponents of this view argue that wealth should be distributed in a way that benefits the greatest number of people and reduces inequalities.
- Joe Robens
Jun 3, 2014 · Economic inequality can give wealthier people an unacceptable degree of control over the lives of others. If wealth is very unevenly distributed in a society, wealthy people often end up in control of many aspects of the lives of poorer citizens: over where and how they can work, what they can buy, and in general what their lives will be like.
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May 6, 2024 · Robeyns, who has studied how people perceive wealth, opens with a provocative proposal — governments should set a wealth limit on the order of 10 million euros or US dollars per person.