Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Personally, I tend to hang the case for more egalitarian economic policy pretty solidly on the diminishing marginal utility of money so I don’t think these moralistic distinctions are that important. But as a serious answer to the question, those are two big factors. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think there’s also an intuition that in a world without Beyoncé there’d genuinely be no Beyoncé songs whereas in a world without Mark Zuckerberg we’d have MySpace or Friendster or Orkut as the winner-take-all player in that market. — PolitiTweet.org

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In other words I think a lot of this “billionaires are bad” discourse is kind of off-base. Lots of them seem like fine people doing good business stuff! It would just still be better to take most of their money away and give it to poorer people who need it more. — PolitiTweet.org

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