Yeah, just remember the bad old days when we had ~95% income tax and NASA actually had a serious budget.
We definitely wouldn't want to return to the days when space travel actually pushed real boundaries and we didn't have a toy supercar company for the superwealthy.
It's not like you have to pay yourself all your earnings in wages as the owner of a business.
I wish you well with your game launch, I hope it's a success.
The issue I'm tackling isn't about erasing the rich, it's about setting limits on the differences between the rich and the poor. If you believe the rich should be richer, why shouldn't the poor be richer too?
The issue with wealth accumulation is that it's a runaway process, wealth begets wealth, past a certain point it's no longer based on merit or contribution to the strength of the economy.
For example, you would not have a SpaceX or a Tesla. You would not have Y Combinator as it exists today. You would not even have the video game that I am about to release next month.
Yes, there are a lot of jerks who amass capital and do nothing with it or who do irresponsible things. But you also have people who use it to work very hard to make positive change in the world, and even if those people are in the minority, their impact is very large.