Should Billionaires Exist?

Addressing the existence of billionaires -- or any other titanically wealthy individual -- is missing the mark because it is the fiat money system itself and the perverse incentive structures surrounding it that deserve our attention.


Human beings -- like all primates -- have an inherent sense or instinct for fairness. A scientist and researcher named Frans de Waal did interesting research into the primate instincts of fairness, and I recommend that you watch that this three-minute clip ().