Had a long comment but deleted it because it doesn't matter. You've posted a few stats here that represent a tiny segment of the huge macrocosm of capitalist economics and people are going to latch onto it so they can be mad at someone. Hate the rich! Well, okay, if that makes you all feel better. Where do you think your jobs come from? How do you think a country becomes a technological leader in the world? By accident? Because of smart people? It happens because of free market capitalism and competition. Because of opportunity incentivizing ability. The ignorance of blaming rich people for what you don't have is not only ignorant, but intellectually lazy. The system creates disparity. Not rich people. Rich people just used the system. So blame the system if you want to blame something, but know this. The same system that creates wealth disparity also creates your luxury, your cars, your iPhones, your military superiority, your entire way of life. And the defense that safeguards it.

It's the system that gives people opportunity to become super wealthy. A few outliers, like Henry Ford or Elon Musk, who did outlier things have incredible wealth. Then they will hand that down through posterity. I'm not mad at that. I refuse to sit here in delusional outrage about that.

By the way, whoever made that 56 billion dollars comment. You do realize that includes the valuations of the companies Elon Musk built, which also incidentally employs you know, people. Might not be the money you want, but it's better than having no money I bet.

To be clear I'm not saying there is no room for adjustment, or that the system doesn't need modification. But at least make a suggestion. Don't just point to rich people and give no alternative. How do we maintain a free economic system that incentivizes innovative industriousness while giving the people a little more to cut down on the disparity? I'll tell you right now the answer is a whole lot more complicated than raise the minimum wage.