Mister gates has bent some of the funds at his foundation towards vaccine development. He's never supported a waver on patent protections that would enable vaccines to be distributed more widely. So it does seem to me that sometimes places like the cato institute say that they want more competition, but then they oppose any legal efforts to make it actually happen.
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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