>>The endpoint of all those arguments was the oppression of the the "weak" by the "powerful" was foreordained and inevitable.

Where's that coming from. What I'm saying, is that 70% tax is an envy move that won't achieve much. That's not even close to saying that 1% depredations are preordained or inevitable. Back on UT I used to quote experts that if 10,000 fit young people decide that the social compact is not working for them, so they change the rules to value their own attributes more- then no police force can stop them. Usually it'll peter out into uncoordinated rioting and looting but if there's middle class leadership then the elites are at serious risk. It's the middle class leadership that makes the difference, which is why it's crazy for elites to suck everything they can out of the blue collar workforces then move onto the middle class and believe they can do it again.

So where are all these people? Right now they're in eviscerated inner city suburbs, in flyover states, in tenements not so distant from Beverly Hills...