&gt;&gt;If you had taxed Musk at 80%<p>He would have thought about futility of giving one&#x27;s whole life to building something and then watch 80% of it taken away by someone else.<p>A few options remain for such people. Tax havens, countries with better respect for individual merit and contribution or plainly make money till a point and quit. All the three are equally damaging to any society for a long time.<p>Eg: See USSR, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba etc.<p>You don&#x27;t achieve anything by making the rich poor. Apart from the sadistic pleasure to soothe your flames of jealousy towards their wealth.<p>The end result is you scare almost any genuine contributor to the economy, and they learn they are better off in some other place.