Elon Musk, Inequality, and the Politics of Envy

Libertarian by The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Jun 22, 202627:34Society & Culture

Richard Epstein takes on the growing obsession with billionaires, wealth taxes, and economic “justice,” arguing that making the rich poorer will not make the poor richer. Using Elon Musk’s hypothetical trillionaire statu...

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