Let me rephrase.
There are Americans who don’t know New Mexico is a state.

Most I expect, don’t know that Real Mexico has 31 states.

There are people Americans who don’t know New Mexico is a state.

If it’s not in Night City, it’s not Cyberpunk™. It’s just cyberpunk.

If I were born and raised abroad, held no assets in your country, was never paid by anyone in your country, I wouldn’t have anything for them to tax. I’d just be some random foreigner. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.

Found the article

If you make a fortune from your connections to an economy, people, and society; wherever you may live personally, it makes sense for you to contribute back to that society. You may not directly benefit from its roads, but you make money from the people who do. Money you wouldn’t be able to have without those roads.

So does your ability to post-hoc rationalize

You could ask Bezos’ ex-wife. It’s common in divorces.

Now you’re literally fat shaming

so to introduce a “wealth tax” would mean to create a new category (“Federal Wealth Tax”) that taxes all net wealth except real estate (which is already taxed on the state level), am i seeing this correctly?

The details haven’t been worked out. It may or not include locally taxed properties. California’s one time billionaire tax I don’t think cares if it’s been taxed or not already.

how do you assess the total wealth of a person, once they have moved their stuff abroad?

They can’t move a lot of it. It’s mostly shares in companies, bonds, commodities, all traded on public markets. Some is in private markets. But that’s still all managed by banks. Banks all around the world started sharing data in 2016. So governments now have access to people’s international holdings.

Things like cars, boats, paintings, various high value sundries, they have insurance values that could be used.

In short, very carefully. Some things may be missed, but the vast majority of their wealth can be found and calculated.

Fixd

I responded to eq0.
Don’t know what you’re seeing

I prefer “Financial Hoarding”
It literally is a hording mentality. But because it’s money, people give it a pass.

What does that matter?
The point is that it’s absolutely possible. There is no technical reason it can’t be done, it just isn’t often.

The US doesn’t have a wealth tax… Yet
I don’t know if China does. But property tax is a thing. And property tax is a wealth tax on a specific form of wealth.

The point is, not taxing people who live outside the country, or aren’t even citizens, isn’t a fixed law of the universe like the speed of light. It’s a policy choice. Different choices can be made. There’s no reason tax law can’t be written to account for it.

US citizens pay US income tax, no matter where in the world they live.

China makes foreign nationals pay taxes on any revenue that comes from China.

You don’t need to end free trade.

I’m speculating. Those are possible ways they could get it. Likely more I haven’t thought of.

I’m not making accusations. I’m putting together things based on what they said in the post. Just trying to make sense of it.

I’m not a researcher, investigator, or reporter.
I’m just a random Steve online. Feel free to ignore me

That’s one option. Or the sellers scam the keys posing as reviewers or streamers. Or a streamer shares them with friends, and they leak that way. Some combination I imagine.

I’d actually guess it’s roughly 1 million globally. ±20%