Hell yeah. You accumulate $100m (or whatever the limit is) and we throw a parade for you. You get an award and your name on a plaque. You won capitalism! and you're not allowed to make another cent
Real, per capita economic growth only really started with the Industrial Revolution - when companies started literally making money.
But the mindset of many is still caught up in the uber-conservative (from an economic point of view) mindset dating to the middle ages that wealth is like land: it's just always there, and if you want more, you have to get it from someone else buy buying or seizing.
If you mean the net worth of money, which is zero, yes it is fixed. For one person to have a dollar, another needs to be in debt.
Also, for one person to make profit, they need to spend more than they earn, which inherently means the rest of the economy is in debt. Now you might say the profit will be spent, but then it isn't profit anymore.
Oh and if you want to talk about the real economy, entropy always rises, so no free lunch there either. When the economy grows, all that happens is that the human domain expands and humanity exerts more authority over the processes that occur within its domain. This by definition results in a loss of agency of the non human domain.
The Federal Reserve creates money. This is Econ 101. There is a fixed pie of money it's called the M2. Again, Econ 101.
Perhaps you meant "value"? Be careful though, if you start differentiating between money and value, you arrive at communism. This is literally the first and last chapters of Capital vol 1.
Obviously the monetary policy is important. The innovation part is deflationary and the money creation part is inflationary, if they cancel each other out you end up with more money supply and the same price of goods.
There are usually two reasons people advocate for a cap on earnings. Either they think that every dollar earned makes another person a dollar poorer, therefore a cap limits poverty, or they have some deep seated burning fire of envy. I saw it in university, activists enraged for the sake of being enraged that someone else had done well for themselves.
Bizarre isn't it? If I were to commit one of the seven deadly sins, I'd choose a funner one than envy.
