This is a rare situation &#x2F; age we&#x27;re in, because we haven&#x27;t seen these levels of income inequality in a long time.<p>To the degree to which I would apply labels to myself, I&#x27;m a capitalist, and I&#x27;m a libertarian. I don&#x27;t trust our corrupt political system anymore, and I certainly don&#x27;t think the government has the ability to help society as much as it hurts it, at least most of the time. Because of this, I think that any extra taxation that the government levies will commensurately damage our society.<p>That said, I can&#x27;t help but think that our entire economy has been swept out from under our feet by the financial sector. It&#x27;s not tech companies and supposedly &quot;rich&quot; tech founders that capture our economy. It&#x27;s VCs. A VC can give a company that would otherwise be insolvent the capital it needs to capture an entire market, and then raise the prices. We see it time and time again.<p>We&#x27;re trained to believe that, without VC, the tech industry would somehow be stifled. This is simply untrue. Without VC, a lot of our &quot;side&quot; projects that create true innovation would have a chance at success. The reason many of them don&#x27;t is because they&#x27;re up against the same thing from a VC-backed competitor. Except, the VC-backed version is cheaper (or free), is backed by an unsustainable, large team of skilled developers, and doesn&#x27;t care that it&#x27;s hemorrhaging money, because once it creates a monopoly it will pay dividends for life to the very few who own it.