Babe, the haves are losing their minds over the have-mores again.
I get the move. Tyrants like Elizabeth Warren never let a rich person get richer (or any person for that matter) without turning it into a crisis demanding more government power.
The rhetoric is always about “inequality” and “fairness,” but the goal is control, deciding who is allowed to keep what they earn and who gets redirected to their preferred clients.
These people genuinely see themselves as the only ones competent to allocate society’s resources.
Anyone accumulating serious wealth outside their permission structure threatens their self-image as the rightful elite.
So they frame success as theft, push redistribution schemes that expand their own authority, and direct the proceeds toward whoever keeps them in power, consequences be damned.
In billionaire and wealthy progressive circles, it’s mostly status theater.
Virtue-signaling about inequality is cheap social currency.
It signals to their audience that they’re not the problem, buys them cover, and lets them keep funding the activists and institutions that serve their longer-term interests while pointing the outrage elsewhere.
Strip the pseudoeconomic language and it’s just another round of the eternal game of who gets to sit at the top of the hierarchy.
(the public is the prop department, historical tradition and all that)