The recent exposé about the Trump family finances shines a light on the ways in which the wealthiest Americans can avoid estate and gift taxes on the transfer of assets to their children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/opinion/trump-bezos-estate-tax.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Like Donald Trump, many of the Forbes 400 acquired some or all of their wealth from their parents. These transfers of wealth pass entirely free of income taxes."
The measure of a well-functioning democracy is a tax system that fairly apportions its burdens.
Can blockchain and the inevitable virtual economy make the taxing system less disproportionate?
If you can somehow manage to convince governments to use blockchain to stop the corruption you will face a lot of backlash. Not just from rich people but also from all types of people, first of all rich people control almost all the sides of business world and definitely the media as well, as soon as you do something that will stop corruption you will have to say no to probably billions of dollars from bribes, which means you are better than most people because almost everyone would accept world shattering amount of money however it also means you will face all kinds of media scrunity because rich people will give order to ruin your life on television everyday.