Who wants to apprehend and keep massive wealth?
Corporate fat cats.
Lottery Players.
Hollywood stars and hopefuls. Also top athletes, musicians, and the like.
Most everybody.
Not everybody who has massive wealth has earned it. Interestingly, the only ones incurring condemnation from the masses are those who apprehend wealth through the market, the folks most likely to have earned it.
When a truck-stop waitress wins $250 million in a lottery, folks are inclined to say "Good for her".
If a rich man's son goes to college, earns an advanced degree, and eventually becomes a highly paid CEO, people call him greedy. Even those who rise from poverty usually are lumped in with those who dared be born into affluence.
My theory is that a large percentage of Americans stopped developing intellectually after high school. They're still stuck in their teen drama, desperately desiring admittance to the "in crowd" while simultaneously scorning it, declaring unfair all that doesn't go their way.
The same thing happens to domestic house pets. Those who live life over a safety net get stuck in adolescence.
Americans who scorn fat cats are the government's lap cats.
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