The people who work do so because they PREFER to, and that's because giving up some of their time, in order to be able consume, is seen as a good trade-off. Re

The people who work do so because they PREFER to, and that's because giving up some of their time, in order to be able consume, is seen as a good trade-off. Redistributing what the highly productive produce to the less productive just leads to a less optimal allocation of resources for productivity, that results in a lower level of production and thus consumption than what people would prefer.