Only the billionaire is allowed to walk on the billionaire's private beach (often in violaton of nominal law). > If someone is king, then that means no one els

Only the billionaire is allowed to walk on the billionaire's private beach (often in violaton of nominal law). > If someone is king, then that means no one else can be. Obiously not true. Each king is only king on the king's property. Much like Ellison and Gates and Walton have their own property. > Theoretically we have estate taxes and laws against perpetuity that help some and could be prevented. And maybe if they were practical and not purely theoretical, the democratic populace would be mollified. > But Bill Gates being born to a middle class lawyer Bill Gates was born to a multi-millionaire. > different from Bill Gates being born to the Earl of Orkney and selling all the potatoes in Ireland to make billions. Bill Gates signed deals with IBM and Dell to sell almost all the OSes in the US, to make billions. Even people who installed other OSes had to pay Bill Gates first.