He may have a large value on paper, but I don't think he actually has access to most of it anymore. He's been removed from every single important role in any of the companies he owns.

and is currently a visiting professor living in Japan at the moment if I recall correctly.

Tell that to Jack Ma

Laws don't apply to the ultra rich in the US.

Because most of the Hamas leadership isn't in gaza. They're protected in other countries that are funding and arming Hamas.

The Republicans have been caught entirely funding the green party in multiple swing states.

They absolutely use their money to sabotage the democrats

Capitalism is fine, we just need to tweak regulations for it to better incentivize the result we (humanity) are looking for.

It really doesn't hurt to keep asking. Nobody that matters is going to be offended by it. Eventually someone will tell you, but just be aware that different people may have different reasons so don't assume feedback from one employer applies to all employers.

Wrap it before they tap it?

This isn't quite the right analogy. The traffic between you and the VPN is quite visible, so it's more like the windows on the vehicle you're using are blacked out so that nobody can tell what's inside while it's moving between those two points.

The big difference is that VPNs encrypt all traffic between your computer and the VPN computer, while this is usually not the case with a proxy. The lack of encryption and decryption can make a proxy slightly faster, but obviously less secure if you're tying to hide what you're doing.

ELI5 version:

VPN - You write a note in code, pass it to your friend who then decodes it, and then gives the decoded note to your crush. Your crush doesn't know it came from you, and if the teacher caught you passing the note to your fiend, they wouldn't be able to tell what it was.

Proxy - You just pass a note to your friend, who then hands it to your crush. Your crush doesn't know if came from you, but If the teacher catches you, they can read it. It's faster than having to write in code and decode.

The correlation between people who deal drugs and people who make poor life choices is pretty high.

Everyone should get off X, I stopped using it the moment that Muskrat bought it. It wasn't great before, but it's turned into an absolute dumpster fire now.