The ability to pass on a fortune to your children can be a motivator. Ui, just think this is a e a overblown issue, to be honest. If you look at the forbes 400 list, the 400 richest er americans, the proportion that a self made has actually gone up from forty % in 19 82, 69%. To day the sunday times rich list, 94% of briton's a richest thousand people were self made.
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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