I feel like you didn’t read the original posts...
I can like nice things and also know I don’t need more. I’ve experienced that, it’s not all that great.
I refuse to believe that because I made good business deals and make a lot of money that I should feel responsible for things out of my control. My kids will be financially fine, the people around me and their kids will be fine too. If my network needs help, I’m there in any capacity that I can / am needed.
You stand on a false hill of moral superiority that you’ve created along with the echo chamber you spend all your time in. You don’t like your situation? Change your kids stars by investing now so in 35-60 years they have enough compounded money to take care of themselves and you, plus continue to stimulate the economy. This isn’t to say money solves problems. But in general it helps relieve more than it creates if you are raised right. We can’t do that if we have an administration that views high earners as the problem on the economy. We may never agree on this, probably because I haven’t had a job in 10 years that I wasn’t an owner or have some vested stake in. I have no issue whatsoever with mill/billionaires. They created products or services that millions, billions of people around the globe consume to make their lives easier/want to buy. Smart people (some of it is compounded generational wealth, im aware).
This issue with you and people that think like you is that you try to care about too many things and it makes you less effective all around. Be good at one or two things, do the best you can to change things for your family and those around you. You can’t win all these battles bud. You’ll be so much happier and you won’t care about the 1% and how they are taxed.