Some things to consider: 1. Would that excess of wealth exist in the absence of those 62 billionaires? The answer is yes only for those who think it's already

Some things to consider: 1. Would that excess of wealth exist in the absence of those 62 billionaires? The answer is yes only for those who think it's already existing in the form of a pie rather than a product of creative processes. 2. The last twenty years have seen a decline in world poverty unprecedented in the history of humanity. This should be a cause for celebration and is inevitably associated with the ascendancy of the very rich. 3. Billionaires are such because along the line they provide or have provided goods and/or services that masses of us value and are prepared to buy. In the main our lives are much better because of those offerings. 4. The power of billionaires spending their own wealth worries me very much less than the power of politicians who spend far greater sums of other people's money for good or ill but are mostly isolated from consequences relating to the latter.