Farhad Manjoo Promotes Billionaire Ideology in Proposal to Get Rid of Billionaires

New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo tells us that he likes to "explore maximalist policy visions" in his columns. He falls well short of this goal in a piece calling for abolishing billionaires, which actually helps legitimate their existence.

The piece repeatedly tells us that their wealth is driven by technology, a point that first appears in the subhead which refers to "tech-driven inequality." The problem with Manjoo's piece is that the inequality is not in fact driven by technology, i...