> I find it interesting to think you can socially engineer a society. It’s not really a secret. That’s the entire purpose of our tax code, social security, Pel

> I find it interesting to think you can socially engineer a society. It’s not really a secret. That’s the entire purpose of our tax code, social security, Pell grants, and pretty much every government program out there. > a benevolent billionaire class This is called oligarchy. For the vast majority of people, an oligarchy is not a very nice place to live. Just look at Russia. I should add there’s nothing about tax breaks for billionaires that will make them “benevolent”. Typically that kind of wishful thinking metastasizes as a trickle down economics myth, but time has shown that to be a myth.