Yes, because the inequality gap gives them huge gobs of power. The chasm is so great that, to us peseants, it looks wasteful. Paying additional taxes is a double negative to them; it would reduce their “wealth” leverage, while theoretically improving our quality of life. How does one protect their generational hoard without the inequality that exists today?

Their incredible wealth also provides the epistemic privilege and validation to what many of us can only assume. This only furthers the need to hoard.

John Randolph of Roanoke “I am an aristocrat. I love liberty, I hate equality.”

Georg Büchner: “The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.”

I used to be of the purely meat/unwired crowd, but that was a younger me. Now that I’m aging, I think I’d take my chrome and never look back.

Problem is they would (will) destroy Earth on exodus so no one could follow.