My point is that they have plenty more bitcoin where the first batch came from; they can just keep going on and on. There's no point for them to not continue spending it, even if they are malinvesting, as they can't take it with them when they die, so why not establish an Earthly Kingdom that reigns in your stead, before you kick the bucket?

This is the economic malinvestment hell that monetary concentration brings.

If 20 million people have $100 dollars, then you can sell 20 million pairs of shoes. If one person has $200 million, he won't buy 20 million shoes. He'll buy two shoes to wear, and use the remainder to purchase all of the shoe factories, shut all but one of them down, and then make people whore themselves to him, to get some shoes. That makes him King of the Shoes.

A few people will be disagreeable enough to try to make their own shoes, and maybe one particularly rebellious shoe factory guy will refuse to sell and grumble in the dark, but the vast majority will just grimace, turn his tricks, and use his shoes.

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And, you know, now that you're King of Shoes, why not become King of Houses? And then King of Food? And then King of Weapons? And...

Just buy up the whole world. You have more money than there are things to purchase, after all. You'll never run out because the purchasing power of the money increases faster than you could spend it.

The only thing that can stop that is government. It's the only way poor people have to push back against market capture, through regulation, but you make sure to also buy up the government and dictate the regulation, to drive any possible competitors out of the market, and then everyone is angry at the government instead of you because OMG REGULATION IS SO ONEROUS.

And then you get gullible Americans to cheer your hostile takeover of the entire planet because yay, libertarianism at work. Woo woo.