Compelling reason for a salary cap

Ostensibly, this is a genuine receipt for a genuine meal eaten at a genuine restaurant in New York City. The meal was for six people, lunch, paid for by Russian billionaire, Roman Abramovich.  I think the image will blow up if you click on it, but if it doesn't, or you don't want to, know that the total is $47,221.09.

Of course, that includes a $7,300 tip (that's one food service job I could imagine taking).  And they whooped up that meal, with 7 bottles of wine for 6 people (rounded on the receipt to a simple $5,000 a bottle).  So it was clearly some kind of celebration, worth spending a bit extra on. (If they'd limited themselves to 2 bottles of wine, and stiffed the wait staff for a mere 15%, the lunch would have cost a mere $14K, roughly. Tsk tsk, the direct costs of louche behavior. If they skipped wine and drank only water -- at $12 a bottle -- lunch for six would have cost a prohibition-friendly pittance of $2,275.)

The receipt/report is currently viral on the Interweb. I got it from TYWKIWDBI, who got it from Buzzfeed, who in turn seems to have gotten it from someone's personal blog.  So I'm aiding the spread of its viralicity by posting here. Pandemics everywhere you look.

Mostly, it leaves me speechless, thinking of the Gilded Age and Edith Wharton novels. Of course, it may not be genuine as reported.  And a USA salary cap would not affect Russian billionaires, presumably (although I'll bet there are some out there who argue that a cap would destroy the global economy, and thus no more Russian billionaires, either).  And, note that there was a heinous $3250 paid in unfair taxes to evil government.

Think how this kind of excess is good for the economy.  The wait staff got a chunk o'money (but not much more than the cost of a bottle of wine), and any restaurant that is selling "large water" for $12 is clearly making a profit. This is simply tourism dollars being earned. See how the free market system works!