@cdarwin I know someone who got wiped out because, during the dot-com boom, he played with the market he didn't understand and made $1.5 million on paper by investing in all of the name brands. The crash happened after the end of the fiscal year. Congress stopped allowing the periodically poor to income average many years ago. He was supposed to pay the tax at the higher tax rate after that fake money he never had was obliterated, well before April 15th of the following year.
Yet this hateful Musk bigot, an immigrant racist who delights in shoving his grinning face into our business, paid nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Fuck this system and its bullshit. It's all for the wealthy and destitution for the rest.