Re: Why \"x% of people have y% of the wealth\" is irrelevant.
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Under capitalism, fortunes can only be build by continually innovating and pleasing large numbers of customers.
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Then this "capitalism" is of marginal relevance. (I suppose the large number of beneficiaries of the violent 19th century European empires were pretty pleased with themselves, though they weren't the "customers" really.)
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Societies are not capitalist exactly to the extent of states interfere in their markets. So complaining about 19th state aggression in a thread about the free market is of "marginal relevance."
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Who's complaining? I'm simply pointing out that your capitalist model is not a sufficient basis for extrapolating the virtuousness of all fortunes. Your OP did not make it clear that its conclusions are applicable only to a specific ideal society.
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