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It is though. My original post was: I don't care if there are high net worth individuals. Did you switcharoo my own opinion?
There's quite a few falsehoods in your comment, such as:
Au contraire, it affects inflation, severily, and therefore the relative value of your savings and past work.
The options for a company are not limited to divident/buyback vs run at a loss, as you seem to be implying.
So looking at history, it's only a problem in every government that's ever been?
Not necessarily. Examples: (a) How would you price a service like insurance? (b) how would you value the engineer of a new type of bicycle hub? He hasn't left his computer, didn't touch a single nail. (c) How should the inventor of a song be renumerated? Is the value created, that people are paying for, solely the network engineers at spotify?
I'm afraid that that's a conclusion based on false arguments.
Then perhaps we are starting from different points, my model is basically that an economy is a closed system until either a) resources, innovation or performed work inputs more value or b) these are removed from circulation.
Under that model inflation, services, taxes, are all value neutral for a certain scope of economy. Your private finances are of course going to be affected by taxes and inflation, but total world or even national economy not so much.
To put it in simpler terms, all goods and services exchanged for money don't change the economy as long as that money gets spent again.
It's a simplified model ofc, it doesn't take into account for example moving value between countries/markets (how do we account for stuff sent into space? Or sent to other countries?).
To help with understanding your perspective, could you kindly explain how high net worth individuals come to their situation within your model?