No such thing as a free lunch. You can't just inflate a persons worth without having to pay for it somehow.
y'know, even out the playing field a millimeter or two.
The point is to see past your own pile of coin and think about society as a whole. If people were up for sacrificing that second holiday house and their stupid expensive watch or whatever, so much good would come of it.
Inequality fuels crime , public services like trains suffer etc...
I think ‘giving money to free loaders’ is a bit of a straw man, as the second order effects benefit everyone. Including you. And note I’m not advocating communism.
We can sit around making up what-if hypothetical tropes till the cows come home, and nothing will change. The rich at the very top just get richer.