Taxing the rich? The middle class would much rather join them

Led by Thomas Piketty, leftist economists protest that inequalities are getting intolerable, so the richest should be taxed severely. Countering this, Jeff Bezos of Amazon pointed out last year that company founders had frequently made minority shareholders extremely wealthy.

He suggested that entrepreneurs should be ranked not by their own wealth, but by the wealth they created for others.

This article was originally published by The Times of India on Jan 17, 2026.

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