The Trouble With Billionaires  In this excerpt from their new
book Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks propose solutions to the
trouble with billionaires.  | September 30, 2010 The Trouble
With Billionaires  The Trouble With Billionaires  by Linda
McQuaig and Neil Brooks (Penguin Group (Canada),  The notion
that it should be possible to become a billionaire is rooted in
the idea that there are some uniquely talented individuals whose
contribution is so great that they deserve to be hugely,
fabulously rewarded.  Some billionaires, such as Leo J. Hindery
Jr., have made this point themselves. Hindery, whose
contribution was to found a cable television sports network, put
it this way: "I think there are people, including myself at
certain times in my career, who because of their uniqueness
warrant whatever the market will bear." Similarly, Sanford
Weill, long a towering figure on Wall Street, is impressed with
the contributions of billionaires like himself: "People can look
at the last 25 years and say that this is an