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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 · It doesn’t matter how much people at the top have; it matters how much people at the bottom have. 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.

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

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   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...

   • Author: Ingrid Robeyns

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

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   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?

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5. 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?

6. www.oxfamamerica.org › explore › issuesGlobal wealth inequality - The facts | Oxfam America | Oxfam

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   1 day ago · Wealth inequality is the unequal distribution of wealth (defined as what someone owns) minus liabilities (debt) among individuals across a country. Wealth inequality tends to increase when ultra-wealthy individuals and companies exert their influence over government policies, advocating for tax breaks for the ultra-rich and corporations, as ...

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

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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.

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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.

   Why We Need Limits on Extreme Wealth - Current Affairs

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   Should we limit wealth?

   • If we want to limit wealth so that we can address poverty, invest in public infrastructure, protect democracy, end climate destruction and eliminate undeserved riches, then where should we draw the line? There are two limits to wealth that we should consider: one political, the other ethical. They should be set at different levels.

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   Should the richest 1% have a wealth limit?

   • It is a fresh take on a much-needed discussion at a time when, for example, the richest 1% of the US population owns about as much wealth as the bottom 90%. 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.

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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?

   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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   Are the poor poor because the rich are rich?

   • The line I’ve heard before is: the poor are not poor because the rich are rich, meaning that the rich could gain a lot more wealth, and the poor could gain a lot more wealth at the same time. Do you think it is true that the poor are not poor because the rich are rich? Or

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9. www.weforum.org › stories › 2016The impossible question: how much inequality is too much?

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   Dec 14, 2016 · In the last 16 years alone, the number of people who qualify for inclusion in the global middle class – at today’s level, people with net financial assets of €7,000-42,000 ($7,400-$44,600) – has more than doubled, to over one billion, or about 20% of the world population. And it is not just the middle class that is growing.