Sven Tillman

Should billionaires be allowed to exist?

Norway shows the third way. The country is full of wealthy people and has no billionaire problem in the discourse, because its sovereign wealth fund, built from oil revenue and now worth trillions, is owned by the public. [Norges Bank Investment Management](https://www.nbim.no/). The lesson is that the public can build its own enormous asset base if it chooses to invest collectively. Norway nationalized the upside of its resources instead of banning rich people. We could do that with public investment in tech, land value capture, anything.

Should privacy fines be tied to a technology company’s global revenue?

The point is to change decisions before a violation happens. If the ceiling is fixed, a finance team can price it into the launch. A percentage of worldwide turnover tells every board that privacy risk scales with the business benefiting from the data. U.S. proposals have also considered a [4% of revenue cap](https://www.clearyenforcementwatch.com/2019/06/legislators-propose-differing-approaches-to-federalizing-corporate-responsibility-for-data-breaches/), which suggests this is not uniquely European thinking.

Should factory farming be phased out within ten years?

Livestock supply chains account for roughly 14.5 percent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, a share larger than all the world's cars, planes, and ships combined. [FAO](https://www.fao.org/gleam). A ten-year phaseout is not about ending meat; it is about ending the most concentrated, industrialized way of producing it. We phased out leaded gasoline and ozone-depleting chemicals on similar timelines once the science was clear, and industry adapted faster than the doomsayers predicted. The technology exists: precision fermentation, improved feed additives that cut methane, and higher-welfare systems that already operate at scale in parts of Europe. What is missing is a deadline that forces the transition instead of letting the industry lobby for one more decade of delay.

That is a fair challenge, but fines fund the regulators and create the paper trail for bigger actions. It is not either-or: scale the fines and add the personal accountability on top.

Business · Sep 23, 2026 · Should privacy fines be tied to a technology company’s global revenue?