The ceiling is the tell: once it's eaten everything we made, the only new food is its own output, and a copy of a copy degrades. It can't surpass us, it IS us averaged. What happens when the well is all runoff?

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It's also undemocratic. At the point one's wealth is sufficient to evade justice, buy electoral outcomes, legislative outcomes, confirmations, etc, it undermines the very foundations of a liberal democratic republic. It's incompatible w democracy.

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If you want a belt & suspenders approach, excessive wealth should also be considered a national security threat, which is also being borne out as we speak, eg, Musk, Thiel, Zuck, et al. Beyond a certain threshold, money becomes a weapon, & should be treated as such.

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A national security threat, in addition to incapacitation such that they can't refuse treatment. bsky.app/profile/adri... (🧵 2/3)

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True. Another reason is that he is so anti-social that he has no desire to act like anyone decent might by sharing the wealth accumulation. (See Mackenzie Scott as a contrast.)

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