Abolish billionaires? Not in this billionaireworshipping country

IN the richest country in the world, there is a current and intense debate on extreme wealth and the many, multi-faced, multi-fangled distortions that billionaires, consciously or unconsciously, bring to the broader society. The corruptive power of extreme wealth, the temptation to use extreme wealth to pursue more wealth and to rig the rules in furtherance of that wealth quest, is now openly being discussed. What used to be an issue on the margins is now at the back, front and center of the national discussions.