I don't know you so can't comment on your position. The fact of the matter is you studied hard and did something your peers did not and as such,and assuming we're going to need people with your learned skills and knowledge, you will get paid a premium as a reward. The question is how much of a reward, it's acceptable until the point it becomes exploitative. In this day and age a lot of that high compensation going around isn't due to increased value add but rather by reducing (exploiting) others compensation. Can you add value without the janitor doing his part? Its getting to the point where people doing necessary jobs are no longer able to live, despite them adding value. Can take it one step further, even if people aren't able to add value (lacking skills etc.), you still live with them in the society you live in, what happens then? Guillotines? Pogroms?
Your success is not yours alone. Society got you to that place and enabled it.
The US and EU country GDP's per capita are very similar like around €60k. The inequality is what is different. $400k is just insane in European country.
But your money is still small fry, billionaires own like 30% of everything in the US. Politicians are probably hiding behind taxing your class, rather than the real issue, billionaires.
That's all besides the point. It sounds like he is making < $1 million / yr which might technically put him in the top 1%, but his wealth is still far from the point of being a target for wealth taxes that some on the left have proposed. He is still in the same boat as the rest of the middle/upper-middle class families in this country but has somehow been convinced that he's in the same boat as billionaire heirs/hedge fund managers/CEOs. Which makes sense if you don't actually know any of those people, some people's level of wealth is just hard to wrap your head around.
The US and EU country GDP's per capita are very similar like around €60k. The inequality is what is different. $400k is just insane in European country.
But your money is still small fry, billionaires own like 30% of everything in the US. Politicians are probably hiding behind taxing your class, rather than the real issue, billionaires.