This is so annoying. These people got rich by living in a society that gives them language, concepts, ideas, a rich foundation of knowledge to draw from, socia

This is so annoying. These people got rich by living in a society that gives them language, concepts, ideas, a rich foundation of knowledge to draw from, social stability. All this requires a social contract whose benefits they are willing to reap but whose costs they are quick to discard. I think the German constitution hat something the lines of "Eigentum verplichtet", roughly translated "property obliges". It's really a shame that these gentlepeople that benefited so much from a stable society are willing to go to such lengths to keep society from their fair share. And that they don't even have any immediate need for the wealth their are hiding is all the more frustrating. This is all done for the sake of a bigger number on a virtual accounting sheet, not because it is required to create anything of value. This money could instead to productive purposes; education, rehabilitation and reintegration of criminals, child care, rewilding of abandoned industrial wasteland, the list goes on an on and on. Instead it's hidden in the most convoluted financial constructs, all the while benefiting people - lawyers and banker and yes, also software engineers, I know because I've earned my pound of flesh - that themselves have ambitions to 'become rich', as if that were of any use in itself. It would be only half as enraging if ordinary people that are barely able to just scrape by on a full time job were in a position to make use of such shenanigans. I guess that would almost make it 'fair'. But as it is, "tool" like these allow for superwealthy people to have a lower tax range than your regular car mechanic or plumber or service employee. And this just breaks it for me.