A friend recently shared a story about going to the gym, where she saw clients arrive with child domestic helpers to help with carrying weights to and from the storage rack. A rather striking visual. To be clear: these are not their own kids. These are kids rich families hire from poor families to work for them in their household.
Lots of forces in society that cause deep inter-generational wealth inequality are perfectly legal. In a dictatorship or feudal system the reasons are obvious and there is no need to go into them here. In a democracy, the rich catch politicians and get them to pass laws that benefit them.
So if you want to argue that anyone rich ought never to be subject to taxation that is designed to reduce wealth inequality, you'd better come up with a better argument than that "they earned it honestly!".
No, there is no need for further argument, and your comical example is neither relevant to the matter of punitive, vindictive taxation nor anything else beyond the fact that one party employs another, and that without that employment one of those parties would be unemployed.
Employment is about doing what you can to earn your crust. The level of your employment is generally directly linked to two basic things: your qualifications; your geography. If you choose to see into that race, colour, religion and all the rest of the social differences, that choice is yours to make and may or may not have anything to do with the reality of the individual's situation. If you think that those basics are skewed, then you may be right, but that is not the fault of the rich; it's the fault of those who are in charge of the money
already raised via taxation, and the manner in which they spend it.
If you believe that it's all down to bought politicians, then all you have to do is produce honest politicans. Or, move to a country where all are equally poor except for the dictator and his support system.
It's my belief that all the misplaced angst about the über rich is that folks often think the rich just put all that bread into the bank and leave it there. No, they have it working, and when it works it creates work for the rest of us. And even those who do not further invest their capital by themselves can't avoid that capital working, because whichever bank into which they deposit it is doing just that: using that money in keeping companies and jobs going, new ones being created and the wheel spinning.
Rob