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"Rich people are morally obliged to contribute to society in ways which reflect the level and type of resources they control" is a social norm, as is "Influential people should form coalitions to punish non-contributing rich people". "This should be centralised and formalised through high taxes" is the political norm, and I don't think it enjoyed supermajority acceptance as a political norm in any time or place except 1945-1975.
The underlying social norms are a lot older than Andrew Carnegie. The Athenian liturgy system is a compulsory but informal version, Republican Rome doesn't institutionalise it but the idea that rich Romans should personally fund public entertainments is a major theme in Roman politics. Medieval feudalism is the idea that rich people should personally fund the very expensive military equipment (warhorse and steel armour) that they and their retainers perform compulsory military service with. (They were also expected to make large donations to the Church). The Victorian concept of noblesse oblige which is probably part of what inspired Carnegiesque philanthropy was based around the idea that rich people who no longer needed to work should take on prestigious-but-burdensome unpaid roles in local government.
The explicit and public rejection of the underlying norm by the Tech Right, with Musk saying that rich people should continue to invest their wealth in for-profit businesses and calling out Bill Gates for letting the side down by donating it, is historically unusual, and the rest of America co-ordinating to punish them would be historically normal.
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