[danaris]

If I already had $2B? Or even $200M?

Yeah, I'd be OK with that. It's not like it would actually affect my life in any way whatsoever. We're not talking about the government taking the food out of anyone's mouth.

It's not actually a benefit to the world that we have individuals walking around with enough wealth to purchase, say, one of the major companies that acts as a backbone for communication and information-spreading worldwide. (Of course, it's also somewhat troubling that a single for-profit company can be such a backbone, but that's a separate conversation.) In fact, there's some pretty solid research indicating that it's destabilizing for entire societies to have that level of inequality.