Idly flipping through the global rich list, I see Bill Gates currently apparently has a fortune of 45.5 billion pounds.
An equally idle rough calculation tells me that (in of course a grossly over simplified world) if he were to stick it in the bank at 3% then he would earn just under 128 million pounds in interest.
By tomorrow.
That's the daily interest income.
Could someone please check I've not been flinging decimal points into the wrong places, and more interestingly - does the panel think there should be a cap on personal wealth, and if so, roughly where it ought to be? Or do you feel the sky is the limit and if he (and of course others almost as rich) can possess that kind of wealth it's a good thing?
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