The Limits of the Billionaire Imagination Are Everyone’s Problem
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"It is axiomatic that these people get bored extremely easily. They are panicky and fad-prone and gossipy and move as a herd;"
A better title might be "nonsense I choose to project onto a group of people I don't much care for".
He manages to hit many nails on the head simultaneously. Bravo. Great piece. Fits the contemporary conundrum to a T. Naysayers are doubtless temporarily embarrassed billionaires:)
Easy. Trace and tax superyacht owners. We’ve been able to do it with Putin. And it’s not like other superyacht owners are that much better.
A superyacht ownership is decadence, waste of resources, carbon emissions and being above the law, sometimes including severe exploitation. There is no good reason that this should be allowed.
Yes, but then we would all have to pay that same tax when we all become billionaires and get our own super yachts.
That’s kinda the point. Responsibilities should be attached to power, not just the freedom to waste resources and build yachts.
I'll take those odds