Ok... I might be completely off base here, but why can&#x27;t we increase taxes on mega-earnings, AND refactor tax laws such that startups are incentivized? Eg, you spend 4 years bootstrapping a business while taking a bare minimum salary and then, through whatever mechanism, are ready to &#x27;cash out&#x27;. Why can&#x27;t we look favorably upon people doing this and apply some kind of retroactive benefit to their earnings, taking those 4 years into account?<p>I don&#x27;t understand why tax laws are applied evenly (in theory...) across industries. If you make a product that effectively poisons the masses (tobacco, prescribed opiates, watered sugar), resulting in huge negative health outcomes, why aren&#x27;t those profits taxed unevenly? Do we not need to fix those problems then in the health sector? Humans are irrational, ads are made to take advantage of the bugs in our decision-making code, but it&#x27;s all on the victims to take care of themselves? Something they&#x27;ve already demonstrated to be incapable of doing.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are intractable problems with this approach that I&#x27;m simply unaware of... but it seems better than what&#x27;s on the table. We need taxation with an ethical component. Make unethical behavior un-profitable.