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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

The case for banning...millionaires?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, News, Politics, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.610.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Political philosopher Ingrid Robeyns believes that there should be a maximum amount of money and resources that one person can have. She tells Sean how much is too much and why limiting personal wealth benefits everyone, including the super rich. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area Guest: Ingrid Robeyns. Her book is Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth. Enjoyed this episode? Rate The Gray Area ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Be the first to hear new episodes of The Gray Area by following us in your favorite podcast app. Links here: https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area Support The Gray Area by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by: Producer: Jon Ehrens Engineer: Cristian Ayala Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:29.2

It's season 3 of The Joy of Why, and I still have a lot of questions, like, what is this thing we call time?

0:37.0

Why does altruism exist? And where is Jan 11?

0:40.5

I'm here. Astrophysicist and co-host, ready for anything. That's right, I'm here astrophysicist and co-host ready for anything that's right I'm

0:44.8

bringing in the A team so brace yourselves get ready to learn I'm Jan 11 I'm

0:50.3

Steve Stroggaffes and this is Quantum Agazines Podcast The Joy of Why.

0:55.6

New episodes drop every other Thursday starting February 1st.

1:01.6

If you've ever heard the line, every billionaire is a policy failure, it might hit your ear as just another empty or vague catchphrase.

1:11.0

Or even worse, a useless hashtag. But is it actually vague? And more importantly, is it

1:17.6

actually useless?

1:19.6

Beneath the sentiment is a serious policy question.

1:26.0

Is the existence of billionaires a sign that we've engineered unsustainable levels of inequality.

1:34.0

The word unsustainable is key there,

1:40.0

because if we set aside for the moment

1:42.0

moral questions about what's right and wrong and just

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