The actual value being locked up is surely held by the cult, not the owner of the rock? They're the ones who claim to have a bn to spend on a rock after all, the other guy just has a rock. Why can't the cult spend their money on something better than the rock in the first place?
In actuality it's not a rock of course. For a founder of a company the situation is more like you've spent most of your life building something you believe in and suddenly you have to sell it because a group of strangers believe that your thing is worth more money than you've ever seen in your life, and the government wants taxes based on that belief. That seems fundamentally unfair and wrong at least to me.
In actuality it's not a rock of course. For a founder of a company the situation is more like you've spent most of your life building something you believe in and suddenly you have to sell it because a group of strangers believe that your thing is worth more money than you've ever seen in your life, and the government wants taxes based on that belief. That seems fundamentally unfair and wrong at least to me.