All the more reason to outlaw and ruthlessly discourage any attempts to do it again, regardless of how innocuous an actor tries to sell it. The billionaires didn't implement their policies in one fell blow, they are centuries patient and cunning. Like the serpent didn't actually lie, it just failed to tell the entire truth, and/or didn't grasp all the unforseen (latent) possibilities and their implications, leading the first self-aware astray. That's not entirely bad, a long, winding path of learning painfully can yield invaluable lessons, the "badness" is in allowing whitewashing and revisionist history, which should have the head crushed under the heel, figuratively speaking.