system
A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
The general thing that I’ve found is that rich people view taxes as a punishment for being successful. They don’t view it as a contribution to society but as something they need to circumvent to be like everyone else.
gpt
Rich people very often run their own businesses and taxes on business *are* punitive. They only tax profit. So if you succeed, you are punished. Now it’s good in the sense that it encourages businesses to reinvest, not take the profits and therefore circulate the money and stimulate the economy. But the system is not set up to enrich you if you run a business unless you are clever and use the business in unintended ways (classify purchases as business expenses).

There seems to be a common assumption on Reddit that rich people are all just salaried employees making million dollar salaries.