Eating the Rich is a Dumb Idea

Without the wealthy to invest in emerging technology, we’d all still be subsistence farmers.

Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash.

“Imagine no possessions,” crooned John Lennon, in a ballad that soon became, and remains, the anti-capitalist anthem of the socialist/communist cool kids in-crowd who want to “eat the rich”.

At the very same time “Imagine” was written- about people “sharing all the world”- the Beatles, with…