Yeah, with adequate coordination, the gorillas should prevail in a 1v3. But I think they tend to fight more like individuals than as a pack.

Gorillas don't have much for protection. The bear has 4" of fat "armor". The gorillas won't be able to bite or tear flesh.

My thinking is that if the bear is able to grab one of the gorillas, it will be disabled pretty much instantly. Unless the remaining gorilla(s) can press their momentary advantage while the bear is distracted, it's just going to rip them apart one by one.

1v4, they might have enough clout to keep the bear immobilized long enough to kill it.

Polar bears are three times the size and weight of a silverback. They could likely prevail in a 1v2 or 1v3. 1v4 would be a fair fight.

Of course there is going to need to be a different set of rules for businesses with few employees, I never said otherwise.

Stop gaslighting.

You replied to a comment where I had presented the case of a small business, valued at $150,000 to $250,000. I presented that hypothetical small business as an example of unrealized gains.

When I asked your preference, you stated:

A moratorium on IPOs, and purchasing of businesses in any form.

After responding to an example of a small, $250,000 business, you used unequivocal language about businesses to demonstrate your point. You certainly did "say otherwise".

But you've jumped to conclusions instead of asking and having an actual conversation about what this would look like.

My grandmother could make that "jump" in her wheelchair, and she died three years ago.

Your plan is not particularly well formed and/or you are communicating it rather poorly. Slow down, take your time, present it reasonably, and be prepared for reasonable criticism.

Marsha Blackburn opposes the 2nd amendment.

You don't seem to understand that the overwhelming majority of businesses are sole proprietorships.

You don't seem to understand that the second most common type of business is a simple partnership.

You don't seem to understand that what you are describing would require a prohibition on converting a sole proprietorship into a partnership, and vice versa. Once you organize a small, home-based business, you can't later take on a partner, to share risks and rewards.

Worker-owned businesses are now prohibited, because workers can't transfer their ownership to other workers when they join or leave. Co-ops are prohibited, same reason.

No, I'm afraid that you haven't put much actual thought into this idea. In your zeal to tax the richest among us, you've just made it so that they are the only ones capable of starting a business with any chance of success.

What is your "preferred solution"?

The idea that businesses shouldn't be bought or sold is not a solution at all.

You absolutely can have unrealized gains without a stock market. Build a business. Someone wants to buy it from you for $150,000 last year, someone else wants to buy it from you for $250,000 this year, you have unrealized gains of $100,000 from last year to this year.

What we can do is apply an annual wealth tax of 1% of all registered securities, (stocks, bonds, etc) and exempt the first $10 million of each natural person. You don't have to sell your shares; the SEC knows how much you're holding, and will transfer them automatically to IRS liquidators, who will resell them on the open market in small lots, no more than 1% of total traded volume per month.

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk lose 1% of their empires per year until they are worth less than $10 million.

I've got a guillotine they can put to good use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_apartheid

It doesn't even apply to all felonies. It only applies to certain particularly violent felonies.

the thing that's different is that social media has demonstrative harm.

Is that actually a difference?

Rock and roll causes harm: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580930/

TV causes harm: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/too-much-tv-might-be-bad-for-your-brain

Video games cause harm: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2000/04/video-games

Pretty much everything kids do that their parents didn't has been "proven" to cause harm. Radio, cinema, comic books, even newspapers were "proven" to harm young people.

Authoritarianism is a far bigger threat than anything than any of this bullshit.