> "The monied class..." - You mean, everyone?
Are you asserting that you believe the parent is using "The monied class..." to mean everyone? Which doesn't seem to be the case.
Or are you asserting everyone belongs in "The monied class", if so, that seems so overly broad as to be a bit ridiculous?
Are we talking about the hyper-wealthy? Business owners? Business managers? Investors in general? It's unclear.
There are a lot of complicated things going on and being generically angry at people with "more" money is uninformative and unproductive.
As near as I can tell, the parent's policy prescriptions amount to (1) we should allow asset bubbles to pop harder, (2) we should have created less(?) or more strictly controlled(method undefined?) COVID emergency debt, and (3) we should implement price controls for consumer goods(?).
[1] At $300 billion supposed net "worth", Elon Musk could retire ($3 million a pop) literally 100,000 times over. Or, he could retire, not making another cent, and live one hundred thousand times better than the average person. If his wealth only grew at par with inflation, he could literally spend $100k a year for three million years.
The fact that this much money is earmarked for this person, or any person really, is only possible because the enormous pyramid schemes they are able to set up which are paid into by speculative investors.
In my frank and honest opinion, there are NO words you can say, NO ideas you could have, NO labor that you could undertake, and NO buttons that you can push that morally justify the tax on humanity's subsequent activities that funnel that much wealth to you. Hands down. And with that money you have zero goddamn problems that justify you offering policy input that personally benefits you. We should shun such money addicts, not lionize them.
The power to make something happen. Like "Long range electric cars should be a thing, now" or "Reusable rockets should be a thing, now." Even and especially when most other people think it's impossible and disagree with you.
Or you can just build a gold-plated swimming pool and ensure your descendants never have to work.
Is that productive? Eh. Versus what? It certainly allows for more risk-taking than government, minimum-cost bidding projects would target. DARPA et al. aside.
It's certainly not fair.
But from a fairness of opportunity perspective, there are certainly more egregiously-born examples who have objectively produced less to show for it than Musk. Or than Ted Turner, to use another random positive example. (E.g. Barbara Hutton for a negative example)
Hacker News is a forum for entrepeneurs. The idea that successful entrepeneurship results in valuable companies shouldn't be foreign. Nor the knowledge that societies that confiscate the fruits of successful entrepeneurship, will soon not have any entrepeneurship at all.
Maybe the consequences of that in terms of individual wealth ownership are unpalatable to you, but the alternative would result in an option that is net significantly worse for society.
I don't accept this framing. That framing is what I thought 20 years ago. It's been the root of a major realignment of my thinking in realizing that these people more accurately have been successful at creating large organizations of people that instead do that fruit production, fight to keep themselves on top of that organization and channel the majority of the profits of those organizations to themselves. How else could you explain the massive, some would call obscene increase of CEO pay ratios over the past four decades? Are CEOs 10x or 100x more productive or good at making decisions than four decades ago? Do they do 10x or 100x more work? It's completely implausible. CEOs continue to be compensated insanely well, even when they make bad decisions and their companies go under.
The real answer is such titans have been more successful at changing the culture to make it acceptable to channel a larger and larger portion of their organization's profit to themselves. It's all mathematically impossible that these people could have done anything to produce so much more "entreprenurial" fruits themselves. Rather, they are the ones confiscating those fruits from their employees and their companies and are benefiting from the casino-like nature of speculative investment markets fueled ultimately by money created out of thin air by debt.
And on top of that, they tell us that they are being stolen from! Gaslighting horseshit.
The alternative? Surely there are more than two ways of organizing society: (i) one with successful entrepreneurship but large wealth inequality, and (ii) presumably one without successful entrepreneurship along with various other characteristics that make that society clearly "net" worse than it would be in (i).
For example, I could imagine a tax regime which resulted in a cap on individual wealth at, say, 1% of GDP. Or 5%. Or 0.1%. Or ...
It's not clear to me that there's an unambiguous demarcation between only two types of societies, and one which is observed across all possible policy or economic schemes.