Economics As If Reality Mattered.
There have been plenty of societies set up to "equalize" results. They needed to build walls and mine fields to keep their people in, and oddly, their leadership seemed to be exempted from the Great Equality.
Surplus wealth is where investment and wealth creation begins. Looting it from those who earned it and allowing politicians to redistribute it in return for political gain rarely improves the economy as a whole.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, Richard Branson, and others have far more wealth than they need to live. I'm very glad that this is so, since they're using it to build spaceships for the rest of us.