"New research shows that humans don’t necessarily have unlimited wants, and that an ‘ideal life’ costs less than you might think."

>"Amit Tyagi says that reports of India’s growing wealth and income inequality are greatly exaggerated."

"Most of the gains went to the richest Americans, but almost everyone saw an improvement in terms of net wealth."

"Presidential budget proposals serve to document the President’s priorities. It’s up to the Legislative branch to accept/fund or reject those priorities in the actual budget."

>"A billionaire’s tax could save us all. Good luck with that, though."

>"Can modern society afford billionaires?"

Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few powerful billionaires at the cost of economic hardship and precarity for the many."

>"Some very wealthy people give their money away in an attempt to burnish their reputations. Not the Tesla C.E.O."

"There are now more billionaires in the UK than at any other time in the 33-year history of The Sunday Times’s rich list. And the richest 250 people saw an increase of £106bn in their wealth since before the pandemic."

>"The resurgent sales of luxury homes underscores how the Covid-19 pandemic has not impeded the fortunes or spending _...Read More_

"How a Chinese billionaire incurred the wrath of U.S. lawmakers and environmentalists, becoming a flashpoint in U.S.-China relations."

"Private space flight is possible because of the ultra-wealthy ignoring the rest of the world's problems."

"Now is not the time for rocket men to abandon spaceship Earth."

[https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/space-billionaires-jeff-bezos-richard-branson/619383/သိမ](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/space-billionaires-jeff-bezos-richard-branson/619383/သိမ) >"Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are choosing a terrible time to leave Earth."