I don&#x27;t see the &quot;sad sentiment regarding Elon Musk&#x27;s mansion&quot; anywhere at all in this discussion. Someone said Musk seemed like the kind of person who would put every cent he owned into his businesses and not buy a big house or a yacht or anything. Someone else said: no, as it happens he&#x27;s got a big house. <i>No one</i> has suggested that he shouldn&#x27;t have a big house. <i>No one</i> has suggested that having one makes him a bad person. I think you&#x27;re seeing things that aren&#x27;t there.<p>On the rest: I wonder whether you misunderstood what I was doing in that paragraph. I am not endorsing any of the arguments I mentioned (though as it happens I agree with some of them). I was listing all the things that people in this discussion had (at the time) said in favour of higher taxes, and pointing out that <i>none of them</i> involved saying that wealth is evil or that rich people are evil.<p>So responding by countering a few of the arguments misses the point. I wasn&#x27;t making those arguments myself. I was pointing out that none of them involves the idea that rich = evil.