There is a question in that letter which I wonder if it is intended as a threat. I might just be misguided. But asking about the questions asked about 'credib

There is a question in that letter which I wonder if it is intended as a threat. I might just be misguided. But asking about the questions asked about 'credible opposition party' and 'movement that may replace the current government'... I think Tim Cook (and others in his tax bracket) might see such a question coming from a media outlet as a bit of a threat. The general public think of the rich as simply normal people with way more money and power. They have no concept of how differently they relate to the world, governments, etc. They've got no idea that once you get beyond a few million dollars, once you've surpassed whatever an individual would reasonably ever need... you start planning for your family. When you get to a billion? Then you start planning for your legacy. You don't think "what will make me some money this week" or "month" or "year". You think on the scale of centuries. And you fully intend your dynasty (for some reason all rich come to fetishize bloodlines and draw irrational conclusions about the superiority of their genetics, likely a psychological defense mechanism against a sort of survivors guilt born out of all their compatriots they've seen fall/destroyed) to outlast flimsy flash-in-the-pan happenings of history like the rise and fall of currencies or redrawing of national boundaries. When people talk about things like a large movement to automation, or things like Apple having a value greater than the GDP of nations, and things like that... they don't tend to follow through and consider things like... people have fought very, very large wars and killed many, many people over sums smaller. Those who think it isn't a game are only those expendable enough to be fodder for it.