Our speaker against the motion is ryan borne, the r van shaft chair for the public understanding of economics thecato institute. He's a regular public commentator on the economy and author of an excellent book, economics in one virus. Lindsey: Thank you so much to ben and to intelligence squared for the opportunity to debate this motion, abolish millionaires.
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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