The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is a thousand. Population isn’t 10 times larger than it was 30 years ago. Inflation hasn’t grown by a thousand percent in 30 years. None of the things you named can account for an order of magnitude increase in the number of billionaires. Nothing you said can account for them holding a larger percentage of the total wealth. It’s not like when there was 60 and now that there are 664 that they both had the same relative proportion of the wealth. The wealth gap is increasing. So that hundred-plus million number that they hold more wealth than keeps getting larger and that number is growing faster than the population.

Are we the bad guys?

“Tesla makes only EV cars and so it doesn’t need all the credits a typical gasoline car company would receive. So they sell them.”

Which means the system isn’t working. Surplus credits should come from improved efficiencies, not excessive allotment.

I can’t wait to find out how toxic this is.

I’ve been ordering two meals at a time since I was old enough to still order off the kids menu at Denny’s. It makes eating out very expensive but never once have I or the server ever given a crap.