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Yes, and that's exactly what I'm getting at: One does not become a billionaire without exploiting a system that allows such exploitation to begin with. Nobody gets to where they are without any form of help; I'm fairly well off, and I am very aware of where I got help along the way. Becoming a billionaire is simply the result of taking any help offered to you without paying back your fair share, and that's where the faults lie: The society that hands out government subsidies with no stipulation past a "trust me bro".
Laws and policies need to be enacted that stifled an individuals economic growth past a certain point, effectively preventing people from becoming billionaires in the first place.
And who do you think has the greatest interest—and the resources—to set up the system you're talking about in such a way that it essentially serves only the interests of billionaires?
I'd say the U.S. demonstrates quite impressively how this works.
To me, the saddest aspect of this nation's decline is that the people who are paying the price have resigned themselves to their fate, since their ideology seems to make it appear inevitable to them.