Because poor people don't have time to learn, they have to struggle staying alive. And very often the billionaires business's model is based on poor people making bad financial decisions, like pay day loans or buying products they don't need but are told that they do by the billionaires ad agency.

Also, if the billionaires give a tiny amount of their money to fund schools, people will get educated, earn more money and be able to spend more.

Government has all the tools to make it worthwhile for billionaires to keep money within the economy.

And governments of course has a ways to convince them that doing that is not wise.

High taxes is the easiest way to deplete economy from productive individuals and their resources.

Taxes are paid on profits, investing reduces your profits, so if they want to invest, they don't have to pay taxes.

Taxes literally are used as a tool to incentivize investing in the economy.

>> Taxes literally are used as a tool to incentivize investing in the economy.

I'm sure taxes has all the good intentions but how well does it work so far if trillions of dollars are escaping in direct opposite directions?

If the tool doesn't work at all - in fact instead of building it just breaks stuff - wouldn't it be a good idea to try a different tool?

> wouldn't it be more productive to learn from that person and educate others how to earn good money and live a good, productive lifestyle?

It might be, or at least a step in the right direction, if those billionaires were teaching free wealth acquisition classes as a full time job after they attain three commas.

Many of the wealthy are born into wealth and have family and institutions that help them maintain it. The poor won't have a start like that, so we might have to setup pools of money donated from these billionaires for the poor to start out with. It could even have a catchy slogan too. Something like, "No exploitation without education."

Educate them on what? How to be on top of a pyramid scheme?

>> Educate them on what?

"...educate others how to earn good money and live a good, productive lifestyle".

You may add to that many other educational resources and lots of them are free. People who are willing to learn will learn.

People who are unwilling to learn and prefer to rob and loot - will continue doing so.

You can't learn to be a billionaire. And the way capitalism works not everyone can be a billionaire, more importantly not everyone needs to be a billionaire. I would go so far as to say no one needs to be a billionaire. But if we are going to put an upper limit on personal wealth then $1bn seems like a good starting point.