Can we introduce a maximum wage cap and get rid of the billionaires?

Let's try Limitarianism, like Professor Ingrid Robeyns suggests. Capping personal wealth at ten million could reverse threats to democracy, climate breakdown, and, crucially, the balance of power itself. 

Every year more wealth ends up in the hands of fewer billionaires, as billions of people go without basics. 

You know that meme which goes something like, if a monkey hoards more bananas than it could eat in its entire lifetime, zoologists would study it as a freakish anomaly – the meme doesn’t say ‘freakish anomaly’ because it’s a meme – but if a human hoards more money than they can spend in their entire lifetime, we put them on the cover of Forbes?

Instead of regarding such individuals as mentally unwell – if they were hoarding egg cartons or scary dolls they’d be featured in a low budget documentary – these people are revered. Thought of as special, different, cleverer, harder working, more gifted than everyone else. It is this awe and admiration for the extreme, incalculable wealth of a tiny few which prevents us from changing a system so skewed that every year more wealth ends up in the hands of fewer billionaires, as billions of people go without basics.