You could do the opposite - what are the weak points of the position that accumulation of wealth leads to waste and see what are the weak points there.
And then think which position can be dismantled more easily and is therefore less well founded. Or ask for a steelman version of it.
You’re proving my point.
No wonder you deployed all of those debate tactics.
How about a change of mindset first?
For what it's worth, if I had $10 million, I currently think I'd spend it as follows:
1. Developing and bringing to market my dream open, general-purpose pocket computer specifically for blind people: https://toot.cafe/@matt/116788125409771800
2. If there's enough left, buying the ETI-Eloquence text-to-speech engine from whoever owns it now and open-sourcing it.
That said, sure, I have certainly entertained the idea of retiring and working on open source, particularly on days when work is frustrating or overwhelming.
But if the goal is "recreate Sandstorm", I do believe my current work on Cloudflare OS[0] is much more likely to succeed at that than anything I could reasonably accomplish independently.
More broadly, at the moment it feels like my position at Cloudflare puts me in the middle of something really important. There isn't anywhere else where I would have more influence over the AI revolution.