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dasil003 • today at 12:01 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

ah yes, all the tech billionaires of this era, had they been given the heads up that there success would have led to a level of concentration of wealth and power previously unknown to humanity, and that the populace would likely call for some changes to tax law to address the largely unforeseeable structural economic effects of this level of change they brought, would certainly have opted out, leaving the US, and moving to another less tyrannical part of the world, where, by the unique magnitude of their genius, they would have brought all their great works to the glory of other nations and not to America with its overly entitled peasants and social media sharecroppers; clearly the rule of law in Europe and China would have allowed them to fully manifest their unparalleled vision of technological greatness without any concern of a rug-pull by authorities challenging their well-deserved hegemony