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by JumpCrisscross 703 days ago
> I'm going to do so very slightly because I'm not shifting the expected value by very much

You're massively increasing uncertainty.

> the same would happen in the future. And the trade-off I get for this is that society gets the benefit

Why would you expect it would ever happen again? What you want is an unrealized capital gains tax. Not to nuke our semiconductor industry.