I DO NOT think people fully understand how much 1 billion is. If your salary was $100k with no tax, it would take you 10 years to become a millionaire, but 10,000 years to reach a billion. It is unethical for just one person to be hoarding this much wealth while others CANNOT eat
"Make policy changes we like or we'll do all we can to ruin the local economy" is extortion. Why resort to those tactics, if you love your town? Just, I don't know, eat the annual cost, man. You are Sergey Brin. You can afford it.
I feel like, if you're worth over $200B, and you own an apartment building, I don't know, you can afford a few years of a rent freeze. Like making a BIG SHOW out of your SACRED RIGHT to EVICT FAMILIES is just such a weird hill to die on, man. You need $300B that bad?