Abolish bad policy instead
Will Wilkinson, "Don’t Abolish Billionaires," The New York Times, Feb. 21, 2019
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Excerpt:
[I]t can be morally kosher to bank a billion and that the existence of virtuous three-comma fortunes is a sign not of failure but of supreme policy success. ...
But guess what? ... Egalitarian Sweden, an object of ardent progressive adoration, has more billionaires per capita than the United States. ...
Prosperity for Billionaires and Non-Billionaires Alike
Six countries outrank the United States on a well-being index and also have more billionaires per capita.
Human Development
Index rank
Billionaires
per capita rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
17
19
20
Norway
Switzerland
Australia
Ireland
Germany
Iceland
Hong Kong
Sweden
Singapore
Netherlands
Denmark
Canada
United States
Britain
Finland
New Zealand
Liechtenstein
Belgium
Japan
Austria
8
4
13
11
12
7
2
6
5
27
16
15
10
19
14
31
1
44
41
18
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