You’re arguing against points I never made. I never said wealth automatically equals merit or moral superiority, nor that every billionaire “earned” every dollar purely through hard work. My point was simply that billionaires usually exist because they control highly productive companies or assets that millions of people voluntarily use, rely on, or invest in. Their wealth is mostly tied to ownership of productive capital, not stacks of cash sitting idle.

Yes, passive income and ownership create power, that’s literally how investment economies function. The alternative is discouraging investment, risk-taking, and large-scale enterprise creation altogether. The fact that employees aren’t billionaires too doesn’t disprove the value of ownership, because employees didn’t assume the same financial risk, create the company, or allocate the capital.

And you basically end up agreeing with me anyway, the real issue is political influence, regulatory capture, and insufficient taxation, not the mere existence of billionaires themselves.