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This is a good thing, since you do want to incentivize people to provide value.
I also don't know about "everyone". If you are a baker selling loaves of bread for $1, there is no reason to care more about billionaire Alice than about working-stiff Bob if both happen to be your customers. Alice still can eat only one loaf a day so her billions are irrelevant to you.
Wealth distributions in societies tend to be power-law distributions and income is basically the first derivative of wealth.
This is a component of the information conveyed by prices, which everyone is sensitive to.
Only for the rentier class. A fit of real-world income distributions to a combination of the Boltzmann-Gibbs for the bulk and then a power law for the top seems to perform better, because it separates the two classes.