What is the philosophical argument that explains in principle why owning significant amounts of wealth when others are in poverty is considered unjust?

Question

I’m not looking for the obvious moral explanation, but the philosophical basis behind that line of thinking. Thanks!

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Answer 1

I do not know how you would separate morality from philosophy in this context.

People stop being likely to gain any more happiness or satisfaction from money after they reach a point of income somewhere around 250 thousand dollars a year. Based on that, it can reasonably be argued that any yearly amount of money beyond this is useless to them- increasing that amount would no longer help with whatever problems they have finding happiness, and that money would be better served getting other people to that marker, assuming you assign more utility to human hedonics than to the right of rich people to use the money they accrue.