Wage Ladders
So a pretty common item keeps coming up of the minimum 30% minimum capital gains tax being a way that wealthy are people pulling up the ladder behind them. Now my thinking is that almost 95% of my income currently comes from wages even if I invest those wages to try to gain additional income unless I have a staggeringly large investment portfolio or get huge outsized growth event (10x bags) I shouldn't really expect to be able to catch up with larger investors who are already earning more than my wage in capital gains and outside of essentially winning the investment lotto my capital gains at best maybe keep pace with other capital investors. So on a comparaison the 30% minimum tax on capital gains has made wage earnings slightly more competitive on the economic ladder.
Are the mentions of destitute families, students and disabled that have surprisingly vast additional investment income that are somehow beating the institutional investors ingenuine or am I straight up missing something?