Doesn’t make torturing them useful

I disagree, but not enough to be very loud about it. I think they’re largely indistinguishable and the way capitalist companies and power structures are organized, with each level of managers deliberately obscuring and diffusing responsibility, means they’re much less likely to command the loyalty of partisan fighters. They’re not kings or warlords. they’re CEOs, part of an entire class of useless MBAs who are almost completely interchangeable. Tsar Nicholaus and his family were powerful symbols of the Russian state and some people really would be willing to take great risks to secure them, even if they only viewed them as a symbol of legitimacy. I don’t think America has any partisans who would make a daring raid to rescue Zucc or Bezos (maybe Musk but the antique troll face mask and the convoy of exploding cars would reveal their plan before they could do much harm). In addition American capitalism is so ruthlessly individualistic that it doesn’t inspire that kind of selfless, courageous loyalty. Even Trump, the best demagogue America has going, can’t bring out any real number of fighters. The proud boys actually engaged in hand to hand street fighting never seem to have amounted to more than a few hundred people, and only seemed more prevalent because of media focus (and our own desire for riot porn). I don’t mean to say they’re not dangerous - One or two people with guns can cause enormous harm, but they’re mostly only dangerous to civilians. Unless the real US army is significantly more ideologically motivated than I think they are there’s no equivalent to the white army right now. That could certainly change, but I don’t think it exists right now and certainly not for tech billionaires.

But yeah, I don’t care about shooting them one way or the other. I’m opposed to torture because I don’t think it serves a purpose and because indulging in sadism harms the torturer and wounds the, god help me, purity of our cause. Violence is justifiable but there’s never any reason to torture and doing it will demoralize more people than it will inspire. It will also normalize torture. Seeing it done at the highest ranks will tell the rank and file that it is an acceptable behavior, and while we can clearly attribute massive suffering to Bezos or Musk, rank and file troops taking revenge on whoever they perceive to be an enemy will inevitable devolve in to massacres and death squads. Add in crowd psychology - Even a handful of sadists can dominate an entire group of people if they’re forceful and charismatic enough, and it often takes an exceptional person, like the Warrant Officer who stopped the killing at Mai Lai and ordered his crew cut down the American troops with miniguns if they tried to hurt the people he was rescuing, to intervene. There were many, many, many Mai Lais, but only at Mai Lai did someone force US troops to stop. Once it starts it’s almost impossible to stop. Even if you hang the perpetrators it’s just as likely other troops, already traumatized by combat, will blame their leaders and the massacre victims for the hanging of the convicted killers rather than take the lesson.