This is a distraction.

User tokenadult, I'm asking you to explain why you think this is appropriate content for the hacker news community. Try submitting this to Reddit under /r/economics.

Content that humanizes billionaires is not appropriate for hacker news. This is like advocating for empathizing with a treacherous, deceitful bully who becomes a psychopath when provoked. A real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation. I think it is called "bipolar disorder" today. Billionaires should be contained, sealed off from the rest of humanity, and put under observation. Empathizing with them is inappropriate and stupid because billionaires are a threat to civilized society; the hacker news community should develop the intention to design technologies that protect civilized society from their depravities.

The plan: quarantine first, then incentivize dull behavior. Punish behavior that stimulates and develops the brain. Use operant conditioning to make their brains useless. Design "billionaireland" with access to all of the depravities billionaires are susceptible to such as sex with children and torturing defenseless animals. Make sure their brains aren't developing! If their brains are developing, make sure it is fetishization of degenerate activity. Don't let them develop capacities for mental activity outside what is necessary for their survival.

Punish them when they try to empathize. Empathy is the key to insight. We want to make it impossible for billionaires to get insight into anything other than how delightful, easy, and carefree their lives will be.

If the CIA refuses to turn the billionaires into mindless slaves to their own pleasure principle, the American people need to find new ways to motivate the CIA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV2DLkDPwM8

The American people need to be all

> we're just waiting for the CIA to get their act together and control the mental life of billionaires to the point where they are no longer a threat to civilized society

Perhaps all that is needed is a clear signal. Engineering the USA tax code to turn the lives of billionaires into a psychological hellhole is a positive first step, and this is a journey the American people will have to make with the politicians they elect.

The CIA can turn billionaires into harmless pussycats who do no more than involve you in their personal drama. How can the gears of this machine be greased? How quickly will the CIA carry this out?

Now, a story about covert, clandestine efforts to mentally cripple billionaires that explains to the American people how effective our intelligence organizations are at (A) working together and (B) protecting civilized society---this I would accept. This is progress.

And if the American people can signal to their intelligence organizations that they are receptive to the acceleration of this process...I wouldn't be opposed to that.

Social engineering is a topic that is appropriate for the Hacker News community, "social hacking". The formula is: the American people have the power to destroy the brains (and therefore the lives) of billionaires, period. Billionaires are artificially prevented from developing their brains by programs maintained by intelligence organizations that target their social network.

Crippling billionaires with mental illness: this is the first step on the road to American renewal. America can show the world

> hey, remember when we let these guys run things?

> now they're like little wind-up toys

> who cannot perform activities outside what they are capable of, mechanically

When the voices of Americans are silenced by the actions of billionaires, Americans turn to their intelligence organizations to break the will of the billionaires.

You see, this is just like picking a piece of trash off the street and putting it into a trash can.

The trash, in this case, is the thought that billionaires are not a threat to civilized society. They are. Pick up that piece of trash and put it in the trash can.