wrong.
what i clearly meant is that they don't take the kinds of personal risks that would get them killed in open conflict, at least not until there are many more Luigis hunting them.
they've mostly learned to be like the shadow bankers, the powers behind the thrones.
political & military power often requires money and a lot of it.
GoT's Iron Bank has historical examples

the people who most loudly tout how great capitalism is also rail against anything that helps the smallfolk as Truman warned in 1952
"Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called farm price supports.

Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people."
a lot of market regulation happened only after the fact, when the self made job creators triggered yet another financial crisis. and if they're not scrupulously watched they would do it all again.
in fact it may be already be happening - AGAIN

"Even during WWII Palestenians were working overtime with Hitler to exterminate Jews"
at the time it was under the control of England and there were battalions of Jews & Palestinians fighting against the Nazis. while there some or even many who favored the Nazis over the British there wasn't the kind of betrayal of Jews & complicity that was common among many Euro nations.
Nazi support was found in many places including England and America's greatest industrialist bought a newspaper *specifically* to publish his tirades against "the International Jew" and was such an inspiration to the Master Race that Hitler had a framed portrait and awarded him the Grand Cross of the German Eagle.
It wasn't Palestine or Arabs who rejected the 1000 refugees of the MS St Louis, it was the good Christians of Cuba, Canada & the USofA

nope, pay up or get fucked

"Had I been allowed to invest my SS taxes myself in the stock market, I'd have far, far more money for retirement than I'll receive from SS"
without the government, the stock market likely would have erased your investments several times and it could still happen

Pure capitalism didn't do that, not anywhere.
The common people had to fight, bleed & die to get their share of the pie.

there's a difference between having it and exercising it but many, perhaps most of those who have it choose to exercise it.
"Caesar Agustus did"
Crassus had it before him & he helped establish Julius Caesar but was killed in battle.
Modern billionaires don't take those kinds of risks.

If y'all had listened to those who wanted money out of politics decades ago & were aghast at the Citizens United SCOTUS decision, America would have been in a much better place.

"in which case we'll need something like basic income"
you're out of your mind if you spent more than one second believing the same people who oppose unions, overtime pay, universal healthcare & parental vacations, etc, will willingly sign on to free handouts for the general population

the same that tells them to use litter boxes in the classroom instead of the toilets

Bold of you to assume our friend Luckyo can read

so was Trump back then & was friendly with the Clintons.
Musk was still pretending to be a Democrat when he e-mailed Epstein on Xmas morning begging to come to one of the wildest parties on Epstein Island, 4 years after Epstein had been convicted in Florida

what is "PLAM"?

both identity politics & racism spring from the same "roots"

Get corporate and dark money out of politics and there will be clear differences