In the 50s and 60s, when mixed economies were the norm, nobody was as wealthy as they are today, and I think most of the world's billionaires are in the USA, are they?

I suppose I'm very European in some ways (German father, South African mother), and I've also lived in the EU on and off for a long time. I'm currently in Germany.

I genuinely do not believe that people should be as excessivly wealthy as too many are today. I don't believe it's okay to force everybody to be financially equal, and there has to be room for people to be able to increase their wealth if they want to. I just think there should be a stopping point. I think about $1 million a year (which is plenty of money) should cap it. By the same token, I also think that the minimum wage should also always be set more according to what can be bought (rent, food, energy, education, health, etc.)

We need to develop an economic system that doesn't allow extremes to develop, and tax is one way of regulating that.

The US health services bewildered me. It's also that everybody takes so many pills. Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't take any. I can't believe the way the pharmaceutical companies have convinced everything they must take this or they must take that.

You know the streets of Dusseldorf where I stay have reams of bicycles outside on the street. I think everybody must ride. And there are no fat people here. It's just a different sort of life.