Justin Bautista, the question is possibly bigger than that.

If we don't find a way of getting all folk in America closer to their real potentials we will all lose money, our living standard and our competitiveness with the rest of the world (the last is already happening). Investing in human talent actually delivers prosperity.

Who will pay for the investment? All who can, I think. The very wealthy have more to gain than the average soul and so it seams reasonable that they would actually be willing to pay more.

How to invest the money is probably more the question. Good arguments can be made for a basic income for all in America. To serve as a platform to spring talent of all kinds. While not the complete solution a UBI would provide the foundation for many more people to achieve their best.

We in the U.S. are masters at throwing away talent. OK, yes, a number succeed but we could have many time fold that.

People making extraordinary incomes is not (generally) money taken from me. In fact I am better off because of the inventions and services these people have created eg. iPhone, Amazon and Tesla electric car (as long as they don't have outsized control over the markets they occupy eg. typical cable company and Bill Gates with windows.

Many thanks. Lots to discuss.