Rian: An affirmative for this motion would not be voting to abolish the activities that made people rich unfairly. The motion is voting to abolish millionaires entirely. I urge you to night to ject this motion, not because every millionaire is a pillar of morality, but because of the immorality and absurdity of such a crude proposal to abolish all of them. Lindsey: We can learn things from thinkers like hiak some when i read a lot for we can learnThings from socialist thinkers. This is not wealth creation. Let's face it,. It's a pissing contest between the world's riches. Guess who's getting pissed upon? It's the little guy.
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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