Look, I'm not saying you're a bad guy or that working within the system for change is illegitimate.
My point is this: smoking while convincing others that smoking is bad makes you worse off but others better off. That's a failure of will.
But piling up millions in a trust while arguing that other rich people should be punitively taxed makes Chomsky better off but others worse off. That's hypocrisy.
It would only be hypocrisy if he said they should be punitively taxed and he shouldn't. So long as those holes exist he would be foolish to not use them.
He's in the same situation as Warren Buffet: both condemn/ridicule the current system and both do what ever is available to them within the current system.
My point is this: smoking while convincing others that smoking is bad makes you worse off but others better off. That's a failure of will.
But piling up millions in a trust while arguing that other rich people should be punitively taxed makes Chomsky better off but others worse off. That's hypocrisy.