The problem

Oxfam: Survival of the Richest

Oxfam: Inequality Kills

Patriotic Millionaires International: 2024 poll of G20 millionaires

The initiative

Extreme wealth poses a threat to the safety and stability of modern life, from democracy and society to the environment and economy. The extreme wealth line initiative seeks to identify and account for these harms. An extreme wealth line would be underpinned with a set of indicators and used as a counterbalance to the poverty line, informing political action and reframing the conversation on inequality. 

The initiative takes an interdisciplinary approach through academic research, narrative influencing and citizen engagement. The work is driven by a steering group of leading political, economic, and structural inequality thinkers and institutions, working with both a national and international focus.

Working in partnership

The extreme wealth line initiative builds on work and research by many others addressing economic inequality

Limitarianism
by Ingrid Robeyns’s

The Triumph of Injustice
by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

How rich is too rich?
A study by Utrecht University

Wealth Gap Risk Register
by the Fairness Foundation

Takers not Makers
a report by Oxfam

Among others.

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Contact

If you wish to support the extreme wealth line initiative, get in touch at: mshotter@patrioticmillionaires.org.