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the broken system is direct evil corrupting social governance. Money=speech means money= fraud, theft, terrorism, genocide. But it is the latter application of money that is evil rather than money. It is cause for liberating the evil from their money. Your view is simply dead wrong.
The only path to wealth is accumulated propensity to savings. Extremely large yacht and epstein island orgy budgets, and MC hammer entourage hookers and blow, is wealth avoidance path. These lifestyle choices are the only path to trickle down, but you might hate them too, perhaps for the one trick "billionaire haters" hate.
I like how I'm the one demanding systemic reform, you're advocating petty vengeance but I'm the one reacting emotionally. It is the imbalance of power and influence that money represents that is the fundamental threat. A system where one man can apply more economic pressure than a third of the country is inevitably going to corrupt, it's not a question of who, it's a question of how long it takes.
And yes, their indulgent excesses are in fact a net harm for humanity. It is the definition of gluttony, and it deserves to be shamed and derided. I'm not jealous, I wouldn't live like that if I could, those people have abandoned their own humanity. They are animals without conscience, without ethical restraint, and without even cognitive empathy. A system that condones and tolerates that kind of behaviour is contemptible and either needs to be corrected or eliminated. They're a festering wound on humanity and they need to be amputated.
punishing specific evil is less petty vengence than generalizing on savings accumulation choices.
You can play whatever semantic games help you sleep at night, but that does not change that the black hole grade market distortion created by that kind of wealth accumulation artificially inflates asset prices and creates and unjustifiable socioeconomic stratification that cannot help but corrupt a democratic society. Rule of law cannot withstand the Epstein class. Sic semper tyrannis.