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Being rich is fine if you did it by benefiting society - producing products or making discoveries, for example. But the Trumps of the world get rich by messing with the rules so that no other result is possible.
Insurance companies can meet together in a room, and agree to erase everyone's rates by 50% in the next 4 years. Not only can't you do anything about it since they are legally allowed to collude, but they will then act like any taxation is theft of their hard earned money.
Similarly, we sank 4000+ American lives in an oil subsidy war, when it would have been cheaper to move to renewables.