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Lol, this is exactly it. If you start writing capital offenses it won't end with billionaires. It will spiral out until "undesirables" of many sorts are dying too.
Violence is not a political tool. That's tankie shit. Authoritarians always come in proclaiming to "get rid of" the group of people you wish would be gone, but they never stop there.
In your example, if society has determined that someone has far too much wealth, they should just be taxed such that they are no longer in violation.
Violence has always been a political tool, but there will be no violence. They won't even be incarcerated. They will voluntarily relinquish their excess wealth long before they ever see a guillotine.
Leave it as a civil offense to attain and retain that much wealth: you give them a billion reasons to fight, and zero reason not to. Making it a capital offense gives them just one tiny reason to stop and think about what they are doing. One small, tangible consequence of their actions.
Authoritarians only understand authority, and billionaires believe themselves to be the ultimate authorities. Imposing the authority of We The People against them is the only way to to disabuse them of that notion.
That we the people stuff makes you sound like a sovcit.
Sovcits say "I the person" not "We The People".