If you provide a service people want/need, you are going to end up with more money.. It's not rocket science. This is how the capitalist cogs turn.
So... what's your plan?
That is, your approach, writ large, harms the economy as a whole. Don't think of that just as money. Think of it as stuff being produced. If there's less stuff produced, that's not good for the workers either.
You seem to have completely ignored the point of the comment you replied to, which is: If the investor doesn't get part of the profits of the company, then nobody will invest in a company. Any company that needs outside investment to buy tools to increase efficiency therefore will not be able to do so. That loss of efficiency impacts the economy as a whole, not just the "bankers and barons".
Is there any step of that logic which you can actually refute?
The reason companies need investors today is that all of the wealth is hoarded by a select few that need to be entreated like feudal lords to get any land, machinery, IP, tools, etc. If the wealth were fairly distributed, a group of regular people would be enough to pool the necessary resources.
They don't always need it. Microsoft, for instance, didn't need much in the way of investment to start and grow.
But some companies take more investment. Say it's the 1800s, and you want to build a railroad. You have to acquire a bunch of land, buy and lay rails, and buy engines and railroad cars - all before your first dollar of revenue. Where are you going to get that kind of money? You sell stock, so that anybody who has a few dollars can buy a small piece of the railroad. And why should they do so? Because they're going to get paid back, out of the profits the railroad earns (if it actually makes money).
If those people don't have the chance of getting paid back from the profits, most of them won't buy stock. If they don't buy stock, then we wind up not having any railroads. That wouldn't have been good for the economy in the 1800s.
Now, you could argue that investors could get paid back some of the profits for a limited amount, and then no further, and they would still invest. That's true, and it's the bond market rather than the stock market. But big new capital-intensive businesses typically financed themselves by stocks rather than bonds. There may be cultural reasons for that, but I think there are also solid financial reasons. Many new businesses fail. If I'm going to invest money, and there's a realistic chance that I'm going to lose all of my investment, then I need a reward that's enough to motivate me to take the risk. Bonds typically don't yield enough to compensate for that kind of risk - not even junk bonds.
There is nothing wrong with selling away the future value of your contributions, or for other people buying the future value of your contributions.
Why does he deserve it virtually tax free?
Why does he deserve more than the average MS worker can make in a million years while doing no work himself, just because he owns some pieces of paper?
Seriously, you could have worked at Microsoft as a full time engineer from the time before the genus Homo evolved to the present, through 100 ice ages, and still not have been paid as much as Bill Gates has in his retirement. How can you possibly justify this?
Because as a part of someone's compensation, you can be paid for with future value.
> How can you possibly justify this?
If I want to sell off my future value of my future work, in exchange for someone else's past work, that is my right to do so, that's why.
Nonetheless, he has increased his hoard of wealth by 60 billion dollars, 120% of what he retired with.
That money was made by the hard work of Microsoft's current engineers, devs, testers, managers, salespeople, call center workers, the whole bunch. THEY are the ones benefitting society, and they would be doing the same job whether Bill Gates existed or not. THEY should be the ones reaping the rewards.