It's reasonable to be suspicious of anything that suggests taxation as a prescriptive treatment. Government force is like hard-coding a value in the code; if yo

It's reasonable to be suspicious of anything that suggests taxation as a prescriptive treatment. Government force is like hard-coding a value in the code; if you really must do it, it may be OK, and everything needs something roughly equivalent in some form to provide the basics (variables loaded at runtime from the environment or a config file, etc), but it's never really the answer you want to hear. I agree that our specific investment system incentivizes eat-the-world behaviors that are ultimately socially destructive. I am pro-competition, but just as we don't insist track and field athletes bludgeon their slower opponents to death, I don't think there is an economic imperative to heavily favor an investment/banking/financial class, especially when they provide no tangible or real economic benefit. Their work is all in pushing paper and moving numbers. In a well-aligned system, there is no way they should be capturing the amount of value they capture (and same goes for copyright interests).