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While I definitely understand the sentiment, other people have already commented on the reality of the situation.
I think the biggest thing that actually makes the whole system more asymmetric is globalized finance for fungible assets, like cash, bitcoin, heavily traded stock options. For non-fungible assets like buildings, real estate or physical assets it's a bit more questionable.
The rich cannot be functionally governed in 2026. The only real currency at that level is power, and money buys a decent amount of it. What can you do against someone rich and powerful? They'd move. They'd pack up their bags and go somewhere their money is more accepted; capital, like armies and water, follows the path of least resistance. You can't tax them, even if you could figure out a way to enforce labyrinthian tax laws and close loopholes you'd better keep an army of lawyers on retainer and a heavily armed IRS, and doing so has its own perverse incentives on those who dodge them by technicalities. They'd move. They'd buy islands, they'd pay off foreign governments, they'd set up shop elsewhere and continue their business. And that's just talking about individuals, not the networks of vast multinational corporations that can be easily moved. The Fed could make a lot of noise publicly about declaring Elon persona non grata tomorrow; it wouldn't change much for him unless they actually bag him a la Jack Ma, and as long as wallets are going to get lighter even the people responsible for bagging him will #resist.
Vigilante actions like Luigi's seem more appealing partly because a large section of society understands that there is no recourse under the rule of the state or immune system for handling functionally unaccountable parasites. In many cases the parasites are the system.
My opinion on Musk has changed a lot over the years. I thought for ages he was a grifter who found the hack of selling the government and his investors big ideas that allowed him to functionally fund his moonshots forever because they make people feel good. Then it seemed like maybe he had an eye for people, and then SpaceX became the obvious leader in the space arena (although comparing them to NASA at this point is like comparing a functional human being to one with fifty self-inflicted concussions). But at least he's trying to do something with his money that isn't "I want to own all the water". I respect a rich crank who wants to use his resources to turn people into dinosaurs way more than someone who wants to use it to simply increase his own share of the pie.
Elon Musk paid $11 billion in one year in Federal taxes. Have you even paid so much as $11 million in total?
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If they packed up and left, I doubt I'd notice. They haven't spent money in the economy meaningfully for a generation - velocity of money supply has tanked since the '00s.
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