[its_ethan]

None of what you've said about Bezos is dependent on him having wealth though. If you could somehow construct a functioning society without money, there would still be someone who has the exact same power/influence that you've described here.

Basically, when you remove money, something else becomes the currency you're describing. Taking away billionaires wealth might actually make it harder to identify the people who have this influence. Rather than news outlets writing articles every other day about Jeff, you'd have some shady person high up in some unelected bureaucracy getting to wield this power. How is that better?