>>1619378It isn't jealousy though. I don't begrudge the pioneers of aviation the fact that they were rich, because it lead to mass air travel. Allowing private jets to continue polluting on pointless flights to Martha's Vineyard while airliners sit grounded because the government is taxing aircraft based purely on how much they pollute without accounting for the necessity of the flight isn't going to do a jot of good for pacific island nations surrounded by hundreds of miles of water on all sides, for remote communities in Alaska and the north of Canada, and so on. That's what bothers me.
In terms of having the rich pioneer new technology, if anything it seems better to take the restrictive approach: The rich will pay anything to keep their Gulfstream 600 instead of buying a whiny electric powered turboprop, but ground the Gulfstream as entirely pointless and the rich will gladly pay extra if it means they have the fanciest whiny electric powered turboprop in the sky.
