How about people like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, who've pledged a lot of their time, money, and effort into "charitable" causes? Obscene wealth, but I guess they're doing something that can lift the material conditions or standard of living for people across the world.
Who is further redeemable between a methhead mugging a stranger on the street to get their next fix or some Wall Street banker who plays the game but also makes sure to acknowledge or give cash to the homeless people he passes on his way to work? No one's perfect, of course, but are we drawing lines in the sand in a future society?
I know, I know, I'm turning in my Lib card. :liberalism: .
who cares if they're redeemable morally? take all their money and stuff and they can be as awful as they want without hurting people.
Their existing followings are going to make that hard - even stripped of wealth, you can imagine someone like Musk using his cult of fanboys for power
I am of course fantasizing about this in the context of a complete cultural revolution where peoples' lives are no longer so empty of joy, hope, and fulfillment that they have to pretend the rich and powerful are their friends or their saviors or their parents. Ignore my username.