America could be both a capitalist's paradise and a worker's paradise if we had a handful of hard caps in place. We're in a death spiral of short-term naked greed.
Do you want hard caps and redistribution on other things or just money?
Like a redistribution of grades. The magna cum laude doesn't need another A+, and there's people at the bottom of the curve who's passing or failing could be changed by a few percentage points. Should we redistribute grades from the top to the bottom?
What about Talent? You can say that nobody needs a billion dollars. Nobody needs to be as good at Baseball at Babe Ruth, nobody needs to be as good at Golf as Tiger Woods. Should we redistribute their points to improve the stats of bottom performing players?
Speaking of Tiger Woods he's a self described Sex Addict. Nobody needs to be having as much sex as he is. Should we impose a hard cap on the amount of sexual partners you can have in a year to stop "naked greed"?
What that line of thought misses is that wealth is built off of the backs of labor. The social contract between capital and labor has always been "I'll put in the capital, and I'll pay you fairly for your labor from the wealth we create."
But as decades of economic research and lived reality has shown us, that contract has been broken for a while: productivity has surged and so has the wealth it creates, but wages -- i.e. the wealth distributed to the labor -- have grown very slowly. (There are a dozen other metrics you could use to show this trend.) This has led to extreme wealth inequality and all the problems we see today.
As such, fair redistribution of wealth was the norm once, people are only saying that that earlier balance should be brought back.
That has nothing to do with the other examples you gave. I mean, outside of some truly disturbing scenarios, restricting Tiger Woods' ability to have sex has nothing to do with how much sex I get.
