Letter: The billionaires always have another option

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Letter: The billionaires always have another option

I did not know that global knowledge is endowed to all those who have accumulated wealth of one billion dollars or more. But are these people a blessing to the common good or a threat to everyone who isn’t them? I tend to agree with C.K. Chesterton who said in 1908: “The poor man has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always…