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1. inequality.org › research › excessive-wealth-has-runExcessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

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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 ...

2. www.currentaffairs.org › news › 2024Why We Need Limits on Extreme Wealth - Current Affairs

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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.

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4. link.springer.com › article › 10Wealth Without Limits: in Defense of Billionaires | Ethical ...

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   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.

5. www.latimes.com › opinion › storyOpinion: No more billionaires? Let's be more ambitious. No ...

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   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 ...

   • Author: Ingrid Robeyns

6. theweek.com › limitarianism-cap-on-extreme-wealthLimitarianism: could we put a cap on extreme wealth?

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   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.

7. www.researchgate.net › publication › 365699237Wealth Without Limits: in Defense of Billionaires - ResearchGate

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   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 ...

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   Does preventing extreme wealth accumulation undermine political equality?

   • 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.

   Wealth Without Limits: in Defense of Billionaires

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   What are some arguments against billionaires?

   • Democratic Accountability in Corporate America. Another argument against billionaires is that public officials should not allow private citizens to amass enormous amounts of wealth that are not subject to democratic oversight or control.

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   Do billionaires deserve to keep their wealth?

   • On this view, billionaires do not deserve to keep their wealth because taxpayers are entitled to a return on the public investments that enabled billionaires to become so wealthy. But this is an implausible theory of desert which, if applied consistently, would be counterproductive to economic egalitarian aims both in principle and in practice.

   Wealth Without Limits: in Defense of Billionaires

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   Do billionaires have a presumptive advantage over public officials?

   • For this reason, billionaires have a presumptive advantage over public officials in debates about whether there should be limits on the amount of wealth they can accumulate. To this argument, one might argue that even if billionaires provide material benefits, they harm their fellow citizens in a non-material way.

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   Should billionaires spend more money addressing disadvantaged people's needs?

   • The first argument in favor of such a proposal, recently advanced by Ingrid Robeyns (2018), states that billionaires’ resources would be better spent addressing morally important goals such as meeting disadvantaged people’s needs and solving collective action problems.

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   Should taxes prevent people from becoming billionaires?

   • Despite the foregoing defense, we grant that proposals to enforce taxes that prevent people from becoming billionaires are not a particularly morally urgent policy problem. After all, there are fewer than 700 billionaires in the United States.

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9. www.nature.com › articles › d41586/024/01276-1How rich is too rich? - Nature

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   May 6, 2024 · Why the world cannot afford the rich. 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 ...