wealth does not trickle down like people think...
one wealthy person can buy 100 shirts but will not buy 100.000...he will go to the shop 3x/day for example but not 3000x/day...he will eat 3-4 meals but not 300000 meals...
if wealth was water and it actually trickled, then the people below do not all have equal size buckets, the size of the buckets does not entirely depend on intelligence or hard work but more on position or friendship...peoples capacity to earn money is not equal just like all buckets are not equal...but the ones with bigger buckets are always higher up and in better positions than the ones with small buckets...
its like a race where no car classes exist...the bugatti verons race the vw beetle...saying that horse power trickles down is ludicrous...its a competition...a race...not a sharing event...winners want to win...
huge wealth is mostly gained though being an asshole...steve jobbs being a good example with his china factories with suicide nets...sure he made 10.000s of millionaires in the USA who invested in apple stock ect...but not much trickle went down to the poor...most of them just got a min wage/suicide net job just like they had before...
wallmart is a great example...the wallmart CEO actually called the CEO-s of other large producers to lower pays for their workers so that wallmart could sell cheaper goods to their customers
I could give 100 examples in real life where in-equality in ability is regulated...like levels of WOW, there is newbie protection or nobody new would play...categories in boxing or just the super heavies would box...male/female tennis or just the males would play...but not in business
keep in mind that during the days of henry ford the rich paid 90% tax...he still built an empire...
does it suck balls that the best and brightest amongst us should have to pay 90% tax? fuck yes!...but the brightest and best amongst us are maybe 0.1% of the population...the other 99.9% will get progressively smaller and smaller buckets
in the end the paradox of wealth will hit us all...the top 1000 will have all the money, and nobody to sell to