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

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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?

2. blogs.lse.ac.uk › inequalities › 2024/03/13Limitarianism: Why to cap personal wealth | LSE Inequalities

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   Mar 13, 2024 · If we want to limit wealth so that we can tackle poverty, protect democracy, reverse ecological degradation, pay for the nation’s healthcare and eliminate undeserved riches, then where should we draw the line?

3. inequality.org › must-we-limit-the-wealthys-wealthMust We Limit the Wealthy’s Wealth? - Inequality.org

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   Jan 30, 2024 · We limit how much noise our neighbors can make. But if we want our human societies to thrive — indeed, in this epoch of climate change, if we want our human species to survive — we need to do more. We need to embrace, as Robeyns so compellingly argues, limits on income and wealth.

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

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   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....

5. www.thinkchina.sg › society › should-there-be-limitShould there be a limit to personal wealth? - ThinkChina

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   Mar 8, 2024 · In the recently published Limitarianism, The Case Against Extreme Wealth, she put forth that one's personal wealth should not exceed US$10 million, which is her proposed limit - in other words, there should be no such thing as billionaires.

6. hansstegeman.substack.com › p › why-limits-to-wealthWhy limits to wealth are more urgent than ever - by Hans

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   Nov 30, 2023 · A few arguments favour an absolute (or relative) limit to wealth (see also here for the academic version). The first one is unmet urgent needs: as long as people at the bottom of the wealth distribution have needs that can not be satisfied, there is an imperative to redistribute from rich to poor.

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   Should we limit wealth?

   • If we want to limit wealth so that we can tackle poverty, protect democracy, reverse ecological degradation, pay for the nation’s healthcare and eliminate undeserved riches, then where should we draw the line? There are two limits to wealth that we should consider: a political limit and an ethical limit. These are set at different levels.

   Limitarianism: Why to cap personal wealth | LSE Inequalities

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   Is there an upper limit on wealth?

   • Ultimately, you come to the conclusion that there has to be an upper limit on the amount of wealth that can be possessed. That’s my argument. There are important values like the survival of the human species on Earth.

   Why We Need Limits on Extreme Wealth - Current Affairs

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   Should wealth go to the people with the least?

   • 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. Yes.

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   Should we be working towards a world without extreme wealth?

   • 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. That view is called limitarianism – a moral and political upper limit to how much personal wealth any one individual can have. What are the reasons for this view?

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   How does a person's wealth depend on a society?

   • Any individual’s wealth is dependent on the resources, effort, and cooperation of the society that surrounds them.

   Ingrid Robeyn's 'Limitarianism' Makes the Case for Capping Wealth - The

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   Why is wealth concentration at the top a problem?

   • My book, and my argument, focuses specifically on the wealth concentration at the top because that causes particular problems. Basically, concentration of wealth means concentration of power and the ability to pollute the environment. There are all these harms and damages that wealth concentration can do.

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8. www.theatlantic.com › family › archiveIngrid Robeyn's 'Limitarianism' Makes the Case for Capping ...

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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...