I don't think there's any reason why there shouldn't be more women millionaires. There is a open question, i think, as to the extent to which er preferences or social expectations about raising familiesabout how many hours they work. I haven't looked at that question in detail, so i don't have a better answer than that, i'm afraid. But i think there's huge female talent outler. And i see reason over the next generation why we won't see a growth in the number of female billionaires around the world.
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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