This is really naive. It's a very arbitrary threshold and since most of that wealth is in equity, you're essentially asking for the government to appropriate and run all large companies.

Maybe you actually think this should happen (I don't) but it's a much more disruptive change than it sounds like on the surface. You're flipping over the entire economic model to a different one, and this affects everyone not just the super rich. And even if hypothetically the government takes most of Musk's and Bezos' money, doesn't mean that you'll get the basic income you're asking for.

What you actually need is progressive taxation on extremely high incomes of any kind, and fewer loopholes to avoid that taxation.

We’re asking for that equity to be a thing owned by the workers rather than the investors.

You know what’s absurd? Money making more money.

And see all billionaires disappear to whichever country doesn't do that? The point of remote work, is that a lot of wealth is now very geographically volatile.

This is just a paraphrasing of that braindead restaurant story conservatives love to quote.

Billionaires can be stopped from taking their money elsewhere. Their bank accounts and corporate assets can be frozen or seized, and America's massive concentration of intellectual talent is unlikely to be moving out any time soon.

15% of US billionaires are foreign born. And a large portion of the top-paid talent hired by billion $ companies are foreigners too.

Going on a billionaire witch hunt would not only push residents out, it’d stop future wealthy residents from coming in.

The US actually doesn’t have much that other places don’t have, especially in the age of remote work. There is excellent education and talent in many parts of the world, often accompanied with a better quality of life too. The freezing of assets and seizures you’re describing would be very hard to enforce. And if such exit taxes were announced, they would likely lead to mass exodus before being enforced.

I’d add that this excessive confidence in American exceptionalism might be what will cause its demise. We already see it happening at the state level. California and NY are so arrogant in thinking they just have the best people, that they’re messing up and losing significant taxable income to Nevada, Texas and Florida right now. At the country level, many Americans are already moving to Portugal, Bahamas, Costa Rica, and others.

Capital does that already. Doesn't matter where the meat person resides now.

As they say, follow (and act on) the money.

That’s what taxes are supposed to be for, except billionaires are the best positioned to not pay them

I agree. Let's start with Bill Gates and Larry Fink.

Your proposal is interesting, though I think you may not have thought it through completely. I have some honest questions about it.

Under your proposal are millionaires okay? Or should society ban millionaires too?

If so why are they okay. If they are not okay, what should the wealth cap be?

Is it okay for anyone to have any private wealth? Your proposal sounds similar to socialism wherein everyone has a certain fixed income close to minimum wage and no one may accumulate wealth.

What are the differences between your suggestion and socialism as practiced historically?