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There is no ethical way of acquiring a billion dollars. Get on board with that concept.
That doesn't mean their evilness is *equal", but it does mean they are all evil. Even popular rich people like Warren Buffett, Gabe Newell, or Taylor Swift are evil for conducting the kind of systematic exploitation necessary to acquire a billion dollars worth of financial assets from consumers and workers.
We need confiscatory top-tier income taxes. We need securities taxes to drive the ultra-rich to pull their wealth out of financial assets. We don't need to restrict them from acquiring products and services produced by workers: their mansions and yachts and private jets are not the problem. Those purchases all paid worker salaries.
The problem is their portfolio, not their stuff: every item in those portfolios is designed to siphon consumer dollars away from workers. We can, and should, claw back against such excessive exploitation .