Or he would have structured his investments slightly differently to take into account the extra tax, and been fine. Or he would have gone bankrupt, but got bac

Or he would have structured his investments slightly differently to take into account the extra tax, and been fine. Or he would have gone bankrupt, but got back up again thanks to an improved social safety net. Or a better funded space program would have made greater progress on its own, and he could have focused on another aspect of his vision of colonising Mars. You can't just look at how people did under one set of circumstances and extrapolate to another.