It isn't even a romantic utopia, it is more like a living hell.
Rich people create businesses and jobs, that is usually how they are wealthy. If the marginal tax rate guess up to 100% sorry 10 million, there is very little incentive for people to earn more than 10 million. And either they will stop trying to earn, out they will move.
On top of that, these people don't earn as much as you think they do.
In addition, these people don't burn money, they spend it. Which allows others to earn money.
> Are you suggesting you should qualify the jobs people create?
Well, I started by saying that the only jobs were yacht captains and butlers (slight exaggeration) and was told that many of the jobs were things people on this message board had. So, yeah, that's what the topic is.
Wow, way to prove my point. Bezos and Gates cannot create a single job in Amazon or Microsoft (Gates isn't even on MS's board anymore). Brin and Page can probably create whatever job they want, but most engineers don't report up to them and cannot be fired by them. So only 1/3 of the people you posted about (Hastings; Zuckerberg) even are in a position to fire someone working at the company, and probably don't know who those people are. Meanwhile, if all six of them dropped dead tomorrow, the only people whose job would be in peril would be their personal assistants, helicopter pilots, etc. Those are the jobs "created" by the founders you listed.
Almost none of those jobs were created by the founders. Most were created by profit-maximizing companies that would be trying to maximize profits even if the founders lost all their stock tomorrow.
Very early hires, maybe you can claim were going into a job created by a founder.
