Except that many  of the people we are talking about are board room scammers who get golden parachutes when they crash a company, or obscene salaries when they are just not that good. Or Wall Street scam artists who have twisted the equity markets into a computerized trading platform that is a perverse representation of what it once was. Interesting article on this subject:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/opinion/rich-getting-richer-taxes.html?_r=0