Maybe not, but we have no better a system than ancient Rome where votes were bought by wealthy politicians from the upper class. But even if you limit examinati

Maybe not, but we have no better a system than ancient Rome where votes were bought by wealthy politicians from the upper class. But even if you limit examination to recent history: - apartheid South Africa land redistributions led to "most of the farms [failing]" [1] - Great Leap Forward in China confiscated huge amounts of wealth from landowners, gave it to the government and peasants, and caused massive famine - "There is no wealth to distribute" in Venezuela [2] - USSR literally killed millions by forcing individual farmers to work in large scale collective farms - socialist reforms in other Latin American states coincided with periods of economic stagnation I will also leave you with this link [3] to a breakdown of Swedish government tax revenues. You'll see the majority comes from taxes on labor and products (VAT) rather than taxes on capital and corporate revenue. So even in so-called democratic socialist states there is not a lot of wealth redistribution happening. [1]: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-nov-21-la-fg-south-africa-farms-20101121-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-nov-21-la-fg-so... [2]: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/7/8/there-is-no-wealth-to-distribute-venezuela-poverty-rate-surges https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/7/8/there-is-no-wealt... [3]: https://www.oecd.org/ctp/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-sweden.pdf https://www.oecd.org/ctp/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-swede...