There's no billionaire world of jo george sorros tom stayer, other liberal millionaires are quite often in hammer and tongs political battles. And i think it's really wrong or misguided to talk about billionaires as if they have shared interests. A studyd by larry bartls has tended to find that the super wealthy tend to be much more worried about budget deficits. We're moving in the opposite directiont on all those things.
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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