Jan 27, 2026 | Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
If one ever wanted to know why extreme wealth and the people who have it are so bad for America, we now have a case study. People are starting to feel the effects of one of the cruelest pieces of legislation enacted in our lifetimes, the OBBBA, the One Big...
Dec 30, 2025 | Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
For many of us, Christmas conjures up “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, a tale of society’s moral obligation to provide for those in need, with Scrooge’s character embodying the selfishness, heartlessness and indifference of that era’s (mid-19th century)...
Nov 25, 2025 | Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
We all have status anxiety. In the must-read book, Inner Level, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, the authors lay out the case that wealth inequality significantly exacerbates people’s status anxiety, which explains the near-perfect correlation between unequal...
Oct 28, 2025 | Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
I’m writing this blog in a jetlagged state, having just returned from Europe. The trip started in Amsterdam where I had lunch with the most impressive Ingrid Robeyns, author of the book Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth. Her book makes a compelling case...
Sep 30, 2025 | Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
Recent polling by TGB (Tax the Greedy Billionaires) confirms what pollsters have been telling us for years: the public overwhelmingly believes, when it comes to taxes, that we have a fairness problem. It was no surprise then, when I asked Perplexity.com whether the...
