Are there good and bad billionaires? | The Economist @TheEconomist

Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Are some billionaires good and some bad? Gabriel Zucman, the intellectual force behind the movement to “tax the rich”, says all billionaires should be taxed the same, regardless of how they’ve acquired their fortune. He joins the Economist’s acting business affairs editor, Henry Curr, to lay out his argument.

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