November 5, 2025

Unhealthy wealth

There was an excellent story about the Tech billionaires today on NPR. 

Sometimes people talk about taxing billionaires as a way to address income disparity and a means to fund much-needed public spending. I understand that and support the perspective. But I would say that a primary reason to tax them is because having that much money is a matter of immorality. No one needs the kind of money these billionaires have. It is not only unhealthy for the culture; it's unhealthy for them. By allowing them to have such a large amount of money we are enabling them to have lives that are disconnected from real life and real people.