> This notion that medical inventions are the benevolent gift of billionaires' ability to accumulate wealth is just wrong.
No one said that. We are saying that billionaires do NOT do that, and because they don't, they are flaming idiots. Literally killing their own children, and often hastening their own personal deaths.
Science is a communal, collective effort, more evidently than anything else I can think of. To need to say that here of all places is really unfortunate
To try and act like taxing the rich is incompatible with medical advancement is just wrong. In the 50's and 60's we still made advancements and google the top marginal tax rate then. Do you think research would even slow down if rich people were capped at 999m? Seriously?