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It’s easy to determine what income would be if everyone made the same amount - average income, which is $72,000 per worker.

That includes everyone who filed a tax return from the kid working at McDonald’s to Warren Buffet.

Not sure what you’d call a comfortable life but a single mom making $72,000 per year would be struggling in many major cities.

What a complete non-sequitur. A wealth cap of, say, a billion dollars would have none of the same implications

It’s not a non-sequitor.

The comment I replied to referenced a “wealth cap” and “redistribution” so “everyone could have a comfortable life”.

My point is that take to an extreme of equal redistribution to everyone, people would end up in a barely comfortable position.

Your point is that too much of something to an extreme is bad. That's true of everything. What's the point?

People don’t become ultra wealthy from a high income, they generally own a business that increases in value.

Sure, but the only way they can access that wealth is to sell ownership, which would produce income.

So all those people who sold $100M businesses are included in that $72,000 figure.