Unrelated to the above part of my comment, but:
> Without deliberate, aggressive redistribution, accelerating inequity is inevitable.
People are willing to embrace redistribution way too hastily, while ignoring higher order consequences. If we embrace more aggressive redistribution, to what extent, how effective, to what long term cost, etc?
Perhaps redistribution is so seductive because it promises some laudable social outcome while also being easier to understand than competing alternatives.
Top-down engineering solutions to complex human problems should cast doubts imho. That is not to say we shouldn't strive to solve the challenges of our society, but we ought to always be mindful of its complexity.
Tangentially related to our conversation, but I found this paper on politics + complexity [1] – albeit still a draft – helpful.
[1] https://www.academia.edu/38433249/Multiscale_Localism_Politi...