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Pointedly, we're not. No one's earned that kind of wealth off the back of their own efforts, and especially without hurting enough people folks get to say no, they ain't gon' fuck off. Not Musk, not Bezos, not anyone. Bloody logistics of it just hasn't been possible to date outside of pedantic horseshit involving genuine hyperinflation.

Plenty of ways of accumulating wealth get restricted due to the harm they cause, excessive amounts would just be another one in the pile

Humans, on some fundamental level, are Crabs.

"How DARE someone have more than me!!!!!!! Death to the rich!  All must be equal!  Kill the beautiful and the smart until we are all the same!"

Nah, most folks don't really give a damn about people having more than them, they give a damn about what the rich are doing with it. "More" isn't a problem, "shitting on other people on continental scales" is the problem. If enriching people to the point of billionaires actually made the world a better place, precious few people would care. Unfortunately, reality exists and that ain't what happens.

So, y'know. Eat the rich. Figuratively, probably. There's neither good reason for nor good results from letting that kind of resource and power accumulation be in one set of hands.

Ah, one of the, uh. Several dozen? I've got a tab open for but haven't started reading yet, heh. That'd be why it didn't ring a bell Thanks.

Eh, there's basically no consistency to criminal sentencing, so comparisons are... generally not very useful, save maybe to point out said inconsistency (i.e. the whole 20 years prison for shoplifting, 20 days house arrest for multimillion dollar fraud type of shit). Sometimes that's even a good thing, considering how fucked up criminal law tends to be and how much different circumstances can effect things.

Incarceration in general (with the exceptions being rare, and usually better handled by psychiatric care instead of your average prison) is kinda' useless at best, actively harmful (according to pretty much any metric you feel like using, really) at worst... stuff like fining (money going to animal rescue stuff!) and rescinding right to own/interact with animals would indeed be more reasonable.

Does have me idly wondering about the plants of war -- treants and whatnot (dominion style carrion beasts, who knows) subbing in for pack animals sounds like it should be a thing. Plant (non-standard diets in general, really, lithovores, mana eaters, who knows) people would have a certain advantage over traditional cultures in the realm of logistics, wouldn't they? Nevermind weird magic critters like walking fruit trees or somethin'. Phoenixes probably make for amazing chicken wings.

Eh, if I'm going from one place to somewhere else close, I'll usually leave it on 'cause the recommendation I remember is to not fiddle with the thing if you're able, don't keep taking it on and off over a short period kind of thing. Twenty minute drive or something, no, but like... two, sure. Just keep it there. You put it on when you get out the car for something, you take it off when you're on your way home. It's not particularly onerous, regardless.

Talking with breathless furvor [sic] about federally mandated litter boxes in the classroom, last I saw chatter about it. I felt like I had somehow tripped into a time warp back a decade or two, ha.

You just read GOP horseshit lying about the form a bog standard drug abuse mitigation program takes.