Bitcoin isn't intended to be an egalitarian redistribution of wealth; it's supposed to be a way for digital cash to exist that doesn't involve depending on trus

Bitcoin isn't intended to be an egalitarian redistribution of wealth; it's supposed to be a way for digital cash to exist that doesn't involve depending on trusted authorities like banks, and proof-of-work mining happens to be the only solid solution to that that anyone has come up with so far.