I have written about billionaires before and why I think there should be wealth limits. I have written about effective altruism and inequality. Well I finally got my act together and made all of my thoughts and research into a website called No Billionaires: an Argument for Wealth Limits.
Extreme wealth concentration is one of the defining crises of our era, yet public debate about it is systematically suppressed — by media outlets owned by billionaires, by politicians funded by them, and by a decades-long campaign to make their power feel natural and inevitable. Most people sense that something has gone badly wrong with the economy, but lack the specific facts, history, and framing to articulate why. This site exists to fill that gap: to lay out, plainly and with citations, exactly how we got here, who made the choices that got us here, and what the consequences have been for everyone else.
The window for action is closing. AI is accelerating wealth concentration at a pace that would have seemed fictional ten years ago, and the political systems that could check that concentration are under sustained assault. Informed citizens who understand the mechanisms of inequality — the Friedman doctrine, the Citizens United decision, the stepped-up basis loophole, the absence of inheritance taxes in Canada — are harder to mislead and more likely to demand specific, effective change. This site won’t change the world on its own. But if it gives one more person the vocabulary to make the argument at a dinner table, in a letter to their MP, or in a vote, it has done its job.