Did you add a little to that post? I don't remember reading half of that. Anyway, salaries, wages, what something/someone is worth is pretty arbitrary. The ones in power practice "income redistribution" in their own way. The question should be what kind of society we'd like to see. You said it, "How can someone live in a 28k square foot home and not be concerned about those living in squalor?'.
So if they aren't concerned then it has to be legislated. I don't see another way. The rich were still rich even when they were being taxed at 75%.