limsey: It would be churlish to suggest that people with money didn't have, on the margin, more influence than the average er voter. economic interest groups that can club together are much more powerful within the political system than some of these individual billionaires," he says. "Bill gates shows that billionaires can do a lot of good their wealth"
Reportedly the planet's richest person, multibillionaire Elon Musk is currently seeking to buy the World's online public square, Twitter. Should billionaires be able to buy so much influence? For this week's Sunday Debate we revisit a discussion from 2021 investigating just that, when we invited Professor Linsey McGoey of Essex University and Ryan Bourne of the Cato Institute go head to head on whether society should tolerate the existence of billionaires. The debate was chaired by Economics Editor at BBC Newsnight, Ben Chu.
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