1876 and 1878 were based too
The one after it doesn’t seem awful, either. May need some automatic inflation adjustments, though.
At this point, I’d be fine with any number between $10M and $1B today, and then like you said lock it to inflation. And tax all annual income above some set amount at 100%. Don’t like it? Reinvest more money into your company, pay your employees more, or donate more instead of taking such a ludicrous salary. Abolish yachts.
What actually happens is the rich move to Dubai or similar. We tried a wealth tax in Norway and all the useless real estate “entrepreneurs” moved to Switzerland. To be fair I haven’t really heard of anyone who’s actually not easily replaceable moving, but this limit is way more radical than a wealth tax.