Matthew HaugheyIs there a website that tracks every California billionaire (who built their entire career inside the state and benefited immensely from it) who moved to Florida or Texas because CA passed a modest new tax on the ultra, ultra wealthy to help pay their share for the state that made them rich?
Seeing both Google founders flee the state, then Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and now Uber CEO Travis K they're all cowards who want to take their ball and go home instead of slicing a tiny portion off their insanely high wealth that will already last them hundreds of years
The Google founders took advantage of all the things the state had to offer for decades. They built a company & themselves into some of the richest people on earth but they BOTH immediately bail when the people passed a law that lets lucky folks support the state that made their lives possible?
I know Google let go of "don't be evil" but taking the first plane out of the state when they ask for a small percentage of your wildly lofty wealth is kinda, sorta in the realm of being evil with your spoils.
OlivetreeIn his book *Toxic Rich* (german only), Sebastian Klein, one of the founders of Blinkist, describes how becoming rich changed his way of thinking - from “how do I pay my bills” to “how do I get more and more.” It became so unsettling to him that he cuts his Assets to half a million euros and has become an #taxtherich activist.
I suppose everyone who becomes rich experiences this shift in thinking, but only a few take such drastic measures.
Since the rich are only interested in increasing their wealth, they become a threat to democracy.
It is always cheaper to buy politicians than to pay fair taxes, and so they will always influence society in such a way that nothing is taken from them.
The rich are the only minority that truly is a danger for society.