The Gold Ceiling: Page 22

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Nov 17, 2025

AKIRA Billionaires aren't monoliths, old money vs new money, US billionaires vs international billionaires, tech billionaires vs traditional billionaires, and so on. So I can speak to you about what I know of Mr. Plant. He started from a middle class family. He founded Nile just after college. He's built, from scratch, a company whose technology almost all of your viewers rely on daily. He's created jobs and currently employs over 160,000 people and that's just at Nile. His philanthropy with the Plant Foundation has helped improve the lives of people throughout the world. If we rolled back time to when he was leaving college, and implemented this resolution then, he wouldn't have had the motivation to accomplish all this. What incentives will people have to work and excel if we limit the rewards? Maryam Could you expand on what you see as the rewards? AKIRA Absolutely Ms. Maryam. The obvious one that we fixate on is money. A less obvious one is self determination. Many billionaires are going to have far less control of the businesses they built. Mr. Plant put all this effort into creating Nile. He's learned a lot about how to make Nile successful. If this resolution goes into effect, Nile will be run by the whims of new shareholders that didn't pour their blood, sweat, and tears into the company. The work being done at the Plant Foundation will grind to a halt. All of the businesses and governments that rely on his money will struggle to adjust. — The Gold Ceiling - Page 22

I just finished reading Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon: This was wonderful in a number of ways. First, I was very unfamiliar with Mary Wollstonecraft and it was great to learn about her. Second, this gave a lot of good insight into Mary Shelley’s headspace when she wrote Frankenstein. While I still struggle to see Frankenstein as a feminist work, I now see how she and her mother were feminists. It was great to hear Wollstonecraft’s experience in France during the French revolution. While Godwin seemed like a good match for Wollstonecraft until her death, he was generally awful to her, to his daughter Mary Shelley, and to his son-in-law Percy Shelley. It’s remarkable how similar aspects of their lives are to modern life, the loves, the parenting, the disputes, and so on.

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