The redistribution shouldn't be a one-time event, but rather a persistently different approach to taxation, labor rights (unions!), welfare, etc.
We can see this working in a number of countries, especially the Nordics.
Of course, there will always be attacks on such a system, but such is life. Some battles need to be refought every two generations or so, that's just how humans work.
Norway doesn’t count because of its sovereign wealth fund.
How is it working in Sweden though? That country still has billionaires (IKEA founder, Minecraft’s notch).
I think it just doesn’t work in general. If you try to set up a new system to redistribute the wealth, the winners will be those in charge of the system.
You need incentives to work hard and it is a good idea to have strong differences in outcome, as long as you have mostly equal opportunity.
Otherwise you end up where all socialist experiments end up: in economical, social and humanitarian hell.
I mean hell, the whole BLM shindig petered out the nanosecond that it looked like the people with BLM signs in their yard might not get tackled by the first cop that see em'.
Now imagine how something with serious dollar signs attached would go(!!).
I mean hell, the whole BLM shindig petered out the nanosecond that it looked like the people with BLM signs in their yard might get to see someone walk down the street with an open container and not get tackled by the first cop that see em'.