[nosianu]

> Two wrongs don't make a right?

Where do you see "two wrongs"? I don't understand this reply at all. I don't see the connection to what I actually wrote.

> Ultimately, it's not a question of how deserving billionaires are (they obviously aren't). It's more a question of how to best advance the interests of our species as a whole.

I agree, and I don't see any connection to what I wrote here either, meaning how this is supposed to be a contradiction to my point?

[jimmyvalmer]

Everyone knows billionaires are standing on the shoulders of giants from Shannon to Shockley, neither of whom were billionaires. Getting these pioneers their just desserts from taxes, assuming they even wanted them, would be like using the wrong end of a hammer to nail a board. My initial response (the one you thought missed your point) assumed this and hopefully also disabuses you of the notion that life can or should be fair.