Exactly right, this is a power grab differentiation game. The rich elite needs a mass of poors to compare themselves to, in all senses.

Plus, in this scheme taxes come with additional benefits:

- it justifies and forces the use of fiat money, the foundation of this broken system.

- it gives a false image of wealth distribution from the rich to the poor through progressive income taxes.

- it enables the enforcement of political agendas through artificial manipulation of net prices