In the historical case for abolishing billionaires, Linsey McGoey formulates a capitalist argument against inequality and billionaires, by alluding to the relevant views of intellectuals of yore such as Adam Smith. Once we couch capitalist economics in terms of their underlying politics, it no longer makes sense to argue along the lines of an idealised free market, as if that were an objective benchmark by which to compare degrees of capitalism. Moving on, I would suggest that capitalism presupposes inequality and indeed an economic elite because it has always been the system whereby all state interventions are aligned with the interests of capital owners (yes, capitalism is a form of interventionism, the litanies of naive neoliberals notwithstanding).