No man should be as rich as Jeff Bezos. No man should be as rich as Mark Zuckerberg.
The thing with wealth caps is that power needs to be redistributed, not merely transferred. The government taking ownership of FB shares (for instance) would only be legitimate as long as the government itself is democratic, balanced, distributed
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Making a centralized, unaccountable power even more powerful is a net negative
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Look at the budget crisis we have in New York. It would be unnoticeable to the wealth of our ~100 billionaires to completely close the gap. And yet.
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It's complicated. Billionaire wealth is generally not liquid, you could not use it like this. It's company ownership -- so we have to ask to what extent and under what conditions we would be ok with the government owning FB or Amazon. There are no easy answers
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