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Devi Sridhar

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

That has to come through some kind of redistribution.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

And nobody likes talking about that because it's the idea of taxation, social investment.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

And there, I guess I do probe at the end, which is, you know, when is enough enough?

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

And do we accept the growth, the number of billionaires, which COVID brought, you know, record number of billionaires created with the rise in extreme poverty?

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

At what point do we say, actually, you have enough if you have 100 million or if you have 500 million?

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

After that, you need to put back things.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

And the idea that actually the tax is being paid by the super wealthy.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

I don't mean people who are working as doctors or lawyers.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

I mean, people who are like,

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

you know, billionaires, literally, or, you know, multi-millionaires often pay a smaller percentage of tax than someone who's there.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

It's true in the States.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

It's true and true in Britain.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

And you do have people like Abigail Disney, you know, Disney and Harris saying, well, actually, we do need to have some kind of idea where you give back.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

And so I bring the example of Finland and that social contract issue.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

which is not saying that you do away with distribution of wealth.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

But at what point do you say if you've got 10 houses, actually, maybe instead of having 11th house, you invest so that someone's not homeless or that there's social services provided.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

And so I don't know how we can have that kind of debate without it sending into increased taxation for all, government overthrow, nanny state, all the kind of things we hear.

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

But just saying that actually...

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

When do we say enough is enough for someone and say, okay, when do you start actually helping the bottom 20% to lift?

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Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

Because the only way to avoid that increase in life expectancy where we know we have it here in Scotland, here in the States, between different populations is actually to start thinking about that inequality more.