30-10-2021, 06:26 AM
I know in America, we've long believed that hard work should be rewarded with financial success. We downright fetishize the rich and don't really question whether there is such a thing as "too rich." With billionaries accumulating wealth at an astonishing rate (70% increase in the last 18 months) while hundreds of millions are seeing nominal wealth/income increases, is it time to rethink how much wealth we can justify as moral and acceptable? Particularly when a billion is already enough to spend in one lifetime and multibillionaires increasingly use their wealth to buy influence instead of helping people.