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Experts Worried Billionaires Will Become Immortal, Compounding Wealth Forever
- missedthecue 4y ago""Suppose, for example, we had a kind of vaccine for the pandemic of age," Christopher Wareham, a bioethicist at Utrecht University who studies the ethics of aging, told The Financial Times. "This is going to potentially exacerbate all the kinds of existing inequalities that we have... The longer you're around, the more your wealth compounds, and the wealthier you are, the more political influence you have."" Is there actually any evidence that wealth, particularly at high levels, grows linearly alongside political influence? For instance, is someone like Steve Ballmer, worth $75 billion 75x more influential in Washington than Tiger Woods worth $1 billion? That doesn't seem to be the case to me at all.