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Oh my, more state money would mean probably a more equal society - more money for roads, schools, teachers, research labs, health care, infrastructure and much more.

All things by the way any entrepreneur is happy to "take" or accept as given.

Forgive me, but watching extremely privileged people's viewpoint, that they are so genius is so much missing the point (of luck, and of course a society that nourishes and carries these individuals).

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Yeah I love how he starts the essay with "assume you start a successful startup in your 20s, so successful you never have to work another day in your life." It's just appealing to 20-somethings with a bad faith argument about a tax that would likely be linearly correlated with age.

> more state money would mean probably

more corrupt goverment officials and more money spent on buying heroine for drugsters and repeat offenders on e.g. SF and Seattle streets.

The more corrupt your environment, the more corrupt you will want to be. From the outside, the US looks like a state, where big money is running the show, will benefit from every crisis, etc. What do you expect, when all the elite cares about is their turf?

I'm not advocating paternalism, but what you have in the US is capitalism without much "control" and does it lead to prosperity for all? Does not look like it.

Why would you assume that a richer more powerful state would mean those things? Look around the world and you will see that is not necessarily the case. Look at California, and specifically SF right here in the US for a counterexample.

It's not necessary, just as it is not necessary that a much more "individualistic" approach would lead to better country (take US as an example).

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