Am I the only one who thinks: little wormriders getting a ride from Shai-Hulud.

Yes, exactly, very well explained.

Lots of people died in the First and Second World Wars. As far as I know, no one died in the First or Second Browser Wars.

If the problem is that the system is very skewed to the top, then isn't the solution to be found in addressing that skew? In closing those particular loopholes?

Shouldn't everyone pay their fair share of taxes? Warren Buffett and others seem to think that they should.

How is high marginal taxes and high inheritance taxes not simple?

If complexity is the problem then close the loopholes that let people get out of this.

America was not supposed to be a country of monarchs and wealthy dynasties, and high inheritance taxes helped towards that goal.