I'm sympathetic to your ideas, but you're really overstating your case here. Redistributing income is probably the primary activity of governments in rich count

I'm sympathetic to your ideas, but you're really overstating your case here. Redistributing income is probably the primary activity of governments in rich countries today. Even in the US, transfer payments are about 14% of GDP: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=2Qi3 https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=2Qi3