The trillionaires are coming. Can they pay their workers now?
“If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire,” pop singer Billie Eilish recently asked during an acceptance speech at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards. She was expressing a common sentiment among Generation Z, despite that most of them aspire to billions of their own. “No hate,” she insisted, “but yeah, give your money away, shorties.”Many of them will, eventually, but it’s trickier than it sounds. Billionaires, including Meta Platforms Inc.’s founder Their wealth is mostly in shares of their compa ...