> My comment above about raising taxes would likely have received much more opposition 10 years ago. It seems like the consciousness here has shifted, probably because many here have a front row seat to the emergence of the tech oligarchy.

I think HN specifically, and the country more generally, has become disgusted with the magnitude of wealth concentration.

Very few here probably believe Ellison, Gates, Bezos, Page/Brin, Elon, or Zuckerberg don't deserve to be very rich.

But that reasonable "very" is 2-3 orders of magnitude less than their current net worth.

That's what many people feel is the broken part of end stage capitalism.