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...
Sep 2, 2025 | Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
I speak often about the fact that heightened status anxiety, caused by extreme wealth and the resulting inequality, has led to many, probably most, of the problems our nation faces, from poor health and education outcomes to high rates of gun violence and opioid use....
Aug 5, 2025 | Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
Welcome to my first Extreme Wealth Center blog, an opportunity for me to opine once a month on what is arguably the central cause of most of the serious problems our nation faces: Extreme Wealth. A year ago May, I wrote in my Crisis Charitable Commitment letter...
