Edit: I cannot reply to comments on this thread for some reason, so I will reply to 'uxcolumbo's response here. You ask why, say, $100m is not enough. Perhaps it is - it's probably enough for most of the things I could think to do, though not all. That said, the article implies that very rich people would have much less than $100m. And finally, I don't believe it's moral to cap wealth. It's a poor attempt to address the symptom rather than the disease - taking away their wealth won't fix it. Perhaps under a government with less corruption it would be difficult or impossible to amass the levels of wealth we see today, and I'd have no issues with that occurring under those circumstances.