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This isn't badass, it's a disgrace. They've hoarded an incredible amount of wealth generated by others and returned a sliver of it. You've been so conditioned to accept this system that you're even grateful for the scraps.
If they gave $100 billion, they'd still have over $51 billion in the bank. That's roughly $7 million a day for every day he's been alive, or enough to feed every child in America for over a decade. Imagine the regional economic stimulus if instead of being hoarded for nearly half a century that money was paid out in salaries to those actually earning that money. _And_ they'd still have billions.
America had a tax rate of 91% on the obscenely wealthy for decades and around 70% until the 80s. Reducing this to historical lows has universally, by both bipartisan and nonpartisan[2] parties, been found to have been the primary driver of inequality[1].
At even an absurd 99% tax rate, applied equally instead of tiered, Michael Dell would have $1.5 billion dollars.
[1]: https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/t... [2]: https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R42729.pdf
It's like celebrating someone having a 'successful' Kickstarter campaign so they or their child can have surgery or some treatment.
Or society could decide that people shouldn't have to pay for surgery and healthcare should be provided to all without them having to cut a cheque.
Society has already basically decided that: it's called health insurance. Having a "single" "government" payer where claimants actually pay nothing at PoS can be thought of like a very low deductible health insurance plan, can it not? Everyone still pays their premium in taxes, unless we mean to enslave doctors and nurses.