The idea of "tax the rich" is hardly needs or worth spreading - you can't open a newspaper or turn on the TV without seeing another extremely well paid TV pundit preaching it to you. It's not new, not original, not revealing and not illuminating. It's something you can read in any speech of any left-wing politician. I'm glad TED refuses to become a platform for election-campaign speeches and resists hijacking its platform for opportunist political purposes - be it left wing or right wing or any other wing politics. There are more appropriate forums for that.
I have very little idea what you are talking about, because your apparent attempt of being sarcastic makes it your point a bit unclear, especially when you at the same time try to put words in my mouth and assign to me points that I never made. But if you're talking about Transhumanism described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism then indeed I can see very little connection to current politics - I don't know any prominent Transhumanist politician and any currently debated law that had any Transhumanist intentions or ideas behind it. If you know any, please feel free to point them out, it would be very interesting to consider.
