Venture investor Vinod Khosla has been fighting since 2008 to keep the public off the public beach fronting his property in San Mateo; he keeps losing, including a failed appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Of all the rest — indeed, all the non-legacy 400 — not a single one accumulated his or her fortune without the help of others, including what may be legions of employees, many of them laboring at minimum wage. Some also built their enterprises by exploiting public investments — highways, airports, basic scientific research, etc., etc.
The Founding Fathers had an answer: almost none. The founders had a visceral horror of inherited wealth. In his autobiography, Thomas Jefferson advocated “a system by whichof antient [sic] or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.” His goal was to “prevent the accumulation and perpetuation of wealth in select families.”
Cheerleading for the accumulation of wealth is always with us. The most recent case concerns Sam Bankman-Fried, the would-be king of cryptocurrency, who is currently cooling his heels in a Bahamanian jail awaiting extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges.
At what monetary threshold does one lose their privacy rights then?
Are Billionaires not entitled to human rights the same as any other man?
Why doesn't the media just stop pretending like they don't understand what actually happened?
Can LA Times who is owned by a billionaire (I am sure he wants his privacy honored) please stop protecting the attack on a car with a toddler in it?
Every billionaire fortune is a threat to our national security and our democratic institutions. We should tax all of them out of existence or forbid ownership of media companies, space faring technologies, weapons systems and armies.
Can MSM stop whining when it's journos get their just desserts for infringing those rights.
Nothing like a self-righteous columnist to cry because leftist journos got a taste of their own medicine.
Sure. They should stop whining about the left's Antifa psychos accosting a car and terrorizing their children because they disagree with them politically....
A little late to the story, ? You're just bandwagoners these days.
Can all you woke tyrants in the media stop shilling for the government and respect our First Amendment? You have zero credibility as a “news” source. hypocrites shame
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