> Some rich soon-to-be-dead billionaire tech nerds want to be able to do something every year without worrying about a judge taking that away from them. Billio

> Some rich soon-to-be-dead billionaire tech nerds want to be able to do something every year without worrying about a judge taking that away from them. Billionaires still have nexuses with the physical world. The machines which execute their code, for example, can absolutely be affected by court orders. So too can their homes, their cars, their planes, their drones and of course their person. There's a brand of techno-utopianism that assumes that if it's virtual, it's magically immune from the whole mechanism of law. This has never been true. The law asserts itself to be omnipresent in all human affairs and -- unlike a computer program -- the law's power is accepted at face value by billions of people and underlined by men with guns and dogs.