Chuck Collins -- Wealth Inequality. Billionaires and Psychopaths; Interview Transcript

CC: Yep.

Rob: Bill Gates is at the top of the list with 76 billion dollars. And I know he has made some kind of a commitment. Mark Zuckerberg is number seven at 40.3. I think Warren Buffet has some kind of a commitment of some sort. I don't know who else if any of the others on the list. But at least two of them have.

CC: A number, there are a number there who have taken the giving pledge. To give away half their wealth over their lifetime.

Rob: Tell me about the giving pledge again.

CC: The giving pledge is, you know, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet and it's an attempt to organize their peers, the millionaire class, to give away half of their wealth at the end of their life. To give it to charity. And some of them, like Warren Buffet, have pledged to give all their wealth away, not just, not give it to their children.

Rob: Okay. But that's. So let me throw some stuff at you that I've written. I think that billionaires are dangerous. I believe that, and another project that I've done a lot of writing on are psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists.

CC: Yes.

Rob: And I asked the, at the time the president of the society for the study of psychopathy what indigenous cultures do with people who try to accumulate way more than everybody else has. He talked about the Inuits up in northern Canada and he basically said they put them on an ice flow and push them out into the sea. Basically, they kill them. I'm not advocating for that but, I think we learn a lot from indigenous cultures and I think that no indigenous culture would have ever tolerated anybody possessing thousands of times more than anybody else in the tribe or the band. This is something that came with civilization. One of the negative side effects of civilizations. So I've come to the conclusion that becoming a billionaire, regardless of how good your intentions are, is a dangerous thing. What do you think?

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