Climate action, racial equity and even systems-change are all fine. But when Liesel Pritzker Simmons starts talking about a global wealth tax, she finds that some of her billionaire peers are apt to say, “Liesel, settle down.”
“Because you’re giving up power,” Pritzker Simmons told ImpactAlpha in a wide-ranging conversation. “But I don’t want anybody to talk to me about systems if they’re not willing to talk about taxes.”
“I would love a little bit more noise from the impact investing family office space around this one,” she says.