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I'm Megynachar Bhardi, and this is the Jack Pod, where on-point news analyst Jack Beattie helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.

Hello there, Jack.

Hello, Megna.

We are at episode 92, Jack. What's your headline?

Shake the super flux.

Shake the super flux. What do you mean?

Well, it's a line from King Lear, and it's about essentially shaking down the wealth of the extreme wealthy

onto the deserving poor.

And why did you invoke Lear for this week's podcast? Well, because we're going to talk

about limitarianism, an idea probably deserves to come. And we were actually put in mind of

this by a caller from, well, several callers, one last week and one from

one from Montana, our friend Kyle out there. If it was up to me, I would see it that there would

never be any such thing as trillionaires, or for that matter, billion billionaires why would you need such amount of

money the Lords of America don't need that so I think there should be a wealth

cap wherein you cannot make more than a certain amount and if you do make more

than that then it automatically goes into a public fund to help pay for affordable child care or universal

daycare or various programs to help uplift those on the bottom tier.

Oh, oh, I remember this now, Jack.

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