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In a word: Privileges.

In the US lawyers and physicians are rich, but in the rest of the world it is not so. In the US those professions have privileges.

The main disruption to wealth has been central banks redirecting the wealth to themselves, by printing money and giving it to themselves at near zero interest rates. With free money privilege people(savers) loss, they win.

Eternal Copyrights and software and business patents are privileges enacted recently in order to preserve the status quo forever.

More taxes? that only creates bigger central planning, more resources in the hands of a few, the politicians.