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That’s about as valid as saying “robbing someone’s house is legal as long as the victim has a high net worth, after all, they can afford it”.

That’s not how laws and society work — theft is theft, no matter who the victim is.




That may be how "laws" work, but it's not how society works. There's a reason why "Robin Hood" is a parable. Legally, not all theft is treated the same, either - wage theft is largely ignored compared to other kinds, despite accounting for an order of magnitude greater amount.

And for that matter, not everyone agrees what theft even is. Leftist will say that wage labor is theft, and the far right will tell you taxation is theft. It's all relative.


Even ignoring the extremely explicit Robin Hood example that's already been pointed out, there's a hell of a lot of fiction centered around going to the lair of a dragon that does nothing but hoard gold, and killing it. Possibly you missed the subtext when reading those stories, but the gist of it is that society is totally fine with not caring about an extremely rich person losing a tiny fraction of their wealth.


The point was on "sins", so I didn't comment on the legal basis, but the moral one.

To me robbing someone of 1% of their capital doesn't look worse than CEOs throwing around their social weight and followers against random people for fun.

The real world consequent of the latter might actually be worse, like whole life ruined levels of worse.




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