No one is preventing Bobert or anyone else from making $400,000 a year or $4,000,000 a year.   Only himself.

This may be true. Or not. But if everyone decided that they weren't willing to work for any less than $400,000 a year, who would teach our children, protect us from criminals, process our bank transactions, build our houses, take care of our kids for us while we work, do the work that nurses do, haul away our garbage, and do all of the other essential services that we certainly aren't willing to pay people $400,000 a year to do?

On the subject of paying $70,000 a year in taxes... how much of that is income tax, and how much is fuel tax? Fuel tax is a whole different ball of wax than income tax. And the Social Security money that is taken paid into the system is a whole other matter entirely. And real estate taxes and sales taxes, etc. etc. When a person says they pay $70,000 dollars a year in taxes, we really have no idea what their income might be unless it is broken down into specifics.