Do we need billionaires?
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Do we need billionaires?
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#2The book "Limitarianism" seems relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/21/limitarianism-...
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#3No.
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#4We need intensely ambitious and competitive people. We shouldn't use money to keep score.
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#6I was just gathering a list of global top hundred with their influence relevant spending and boy that was not a pretty sight. At least in terms of normal people.
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#7> risk-takers who are badly needed
But at what point does marginal private incentive stop helping innovation and start damaging democracy? For sure risk-taking deserves reward but the size of the reward matters
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#8We need intensely ambitious and competitive people. We shouldn't use money to keep score.
In the times of metacrisis and power concentrated in the hands of few who actively try to fry the world I think what we need is the exact opposite of that.
That is what we've had mostly for the last fifty years and look where it has gotten us? And US. I'm not from US
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