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Thank you for your comment. I think your argument that inequality is the logical extension of humanity's ambition is very common in the tech-sector.

How would the mercy of not "making it so insufferable that the poor leave as economic refugees" actually work out? Don't millionaires need non-millionaires to clean their houses, cook their meals, and walk their dogs?

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Not if the millionaires are just barely affording super-high-rent tiny apartments. And buying their food from billion-dollar-valuation food delivery services.

But those food delivery services would employ part time wage workers.

This problem is usually sidestepped by the argument that teachers, policemen, sanitation workers, etc, can't live in the communities they serve and that that's fine as a result of a wider services market, better transportation etc, etc, etc.

But at some point you do have to concede that most of the people driving their beat-up 1996 Hondas to bring you fresh sashimi aren't valued in the six figures - and you have to acknowledge and design for it.

Yup, and instead of having a cook per millionaire or so, you have a few people making and delivering food for a bunch of millionaires. So the number of lower-wage people needed is still relatively low.

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