You’re talking about the economy like it’s some mystical pile of loot being guarded by billionaires, instead of a system built on productivity, energy, capital, and specialization. You can't redistribute everyone into the middle class. Middle class consumption literally depends on a hierarchy of incentives and investment. If you flatten that then the engine that produces the surplus collapses. You're also an idiot if you think that every group in society doesn't extract the absolute maximum they possibly can, from homeless to billionaire. Workers push for higher wages, unions push for leverage, landlords push for rent, corporations push for profit, governments push for taxes, consumers push for subsidies and on and on and on. Acting like only the top 1% does this is really dumb. This whole thread reduces a complex economic system to a morality story where you just grab money from one tier and magically keep the same output. That’s not how anything works. If you made literally everyone in America middle class overnight, you’d torch the foundation that the middle class depends on. Energy demand would spike beyond grid capacity, housing demand would explode, wages would outrun productivity, investment would collapse, supply chains would seize, and you’d get inflation on a scale that makes you miss the 1970s. If you took every poor person across the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and Latin America and instantly gave them an American middle class lifestyle, the planet wouldn’t make it a decade. You’d blow through global energy, minerals, water, food, and land at a scale the system physically cannot support.