> We just can't have them manage society. I agree, but it's too late. After all, once one has firmly reached billionaire status, what is one supposed to do? J

> We just can't have them manage society. I agree, but it's too late. After all, once one has firmly reached billionaire status, what is one supposed to do? Just sit around and sip martinis by the pool? As we've discovered, the billionaire class, having achieved unimaginable wealth and been convinced of their own intellectual superiority by a coterie of sycophants, have an apparently irresistible drive to meddle in affairs of state, especially when those affairs are well outside their domain of experience. And no matter how badly it goes, they will never be convinced that they are doing bad. The real argument for taxing billionaires out of existence is not that the money would benefit other people more (although that is true), but because such accumulated wealth in such few hands results in too much concentrated power without the need to care whether it's being applied well, because either way, they will still be rich and powerful. The argument for democracy is not that the "people" always choose the best leader, but that the leader must do at least something well in order to maintain their support.