@krans @cypnk Once you've built a guillotine, it'll seem like a waste to only use it on a few billionaires.
A popular revolution against extreme inequality looks more and more likely daily. They're already very, very likely to descend into indiscriminate bloodshed without us trivialising it ahead of time.
Demagogues love violence, it's cathartic and distracting and it's easier than figuring out a fair way to distribute expropriated hoards of abstract wealth.