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[Dragon Ball Z/Super] Why did Frieza decide to get into illegal real estate instead of becoming the space king and charging planets crazy taxes

Z and the additional lore from Super paint him as a nearly untouchable figure in his prime. The Galactic Patrol couldn't touch him and he had free reign to do as he please so long as he didn't piss off Beerus.

So why get into a tedious real estate business when he could just make every planet his planet and reign as ruler. Did he just like doing business?
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He was still de facto in charge, he just sold the rights to 'rule' the planets he conquered because coming up with a tax policy is more tedious than the policy of 'sell the planet, then take anything you want from them anyway'. It's not like he would at all benefit from taxes - the only thing money does for him is let him outfit his army, and occupying an entire planet permanently just *raises* those costs, and turns profitable taxation into a weird balancing act. Really not worth the trouble when you are indisputably the most powerful being in the universe who isn't, y'know, asleep.