> Most people deeply, deeply, deeply care about their salaries. It's what gets them out of the bed in the morning...
This seems to be kind of a problem though? Both to be this person, and to have to work with them, and to have society composed of them. Billionaires are a drain on society and the economy, but the core issue is not the wealth inequality itself but the larger attitude in which "most people deeply care about money, first and foremost".
When you’re trying to save enough money to have 25x your annual expenses saved by retirement (to support a 4% safe-withdrawal-rate), buy a house in a good school district, and save for their kids’ college, people are naturally concerned about their income. This is single-digit barely-millionaire territory, not billionaire level of income inequality.
This seems to be kind of a problem though? Both to be this person, and to have to work with them, and to have society composed of them. Billionaires are a drain on society and the economy, but the core issue is not the wealth inequality itself but the larger attitude in which "most people deeply care about money, first and foremost".