“Most of this wealth is in stocks”.

This argument has to be one of the worst, most ridiculous ones ever.

First of all, nobody would ever buy, sell or hold stock if it wasn’t valuable.

Secondly, stock is directly and indirectly valuable. Aside from directly selling it, some companies provide dividends. People who own lots of stock can make a lot of money just from dividends. Also, they can use that as collateral and borrow from banks at good interest rates and live off of that.

My company gives us stock grants as bonuses. I’m paying a ton of money to remodel my house and the vast majority has come from cashing in stock. If me, with my modest stock grants, can cash in a few years worth of stock bonuses and basically pay to rebuild my house, these guys with assets in the 100’s of billions can live off the interest of a few sales. They can borrow against their wealth. It’s so awful and disingenuous to imply that they’re not hoarding wealth because “most of it is stock”.

If it’s so worthless, give all of their options to their workers!