The billion-dollar question: Can you be TOO rich?

We are committed to building on our significant efforts to date and identifying new ways we can support our Cast Members and communities around the world."What really appalls Abigail Disney is some of the behavior of the super-rich, like when Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos launched themselves into orbit.Whitaker asked, "So, Jeff Bezos said when he came back to Earth, he wanted to thank Amazon's employees and customers, because, 'You paid for all of this.' What was your reaction to that?""I threw up in my mouth a little bit," she laughed. Whereas we have this massive problem of climate change that also needs funding."The world's wealthiest one percent are believed to use double the carbon emissions of the bottom 50%, according to the Oxfam report, "Confronting Carbon Inequality."So, where to draw the bottom line on wealth?Robeyns said, "In America you now have this saying, 'There shouldn't be any billionaires. I don't think you need a billion." Whitaker asked Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur who made more than a few dollars as the founder of a biopharmaceutical company, "Do you think that there's a point at which it becomes a problem for an individual, but also for society, when not just one person, but a whole class of people, has vastly more wealth than anybody else in the society?""I don't think that's inherently a problem," Ramaswamy replied. But I will tell you that I think it is the least imperfect system in ultimately lifting up people who are at the bottom."And then, there's the argument about incentives – that you, too, could become the next Bill Gates.To which Abigail Disney said, "I think that's hogwash. "These are ways in which you can turn financial wealth into political power."Abigail Disney said, "I don't think it's right for a private individual, a group of individuals, to have that much say in the direction of social issues that all of us are affected by."It's one limitarian point that Vivek Ramaswamy agrees with; he's criticized corporations and the wealthy for exerting their influence on social issues."The source of equality that I think we need to restore isn't an equality of wealth, it isn't a redistribution of wealth; it is a restoration of the idea that we are equal as citizens," he said.