But, to your point, the ultimate forms of wealth redistribution are wars and revolution. What happened 200+ years ago in France can happen again. And it will if we don't start being just a little bit fairer in the distirbution of profits.
The alternative was not and would not be pretty.
Whether we like it or not, but eventually this spending is going to grow high enough that it can't grow anymore.
you're hand waving over two world wars, the discovery of nuclear weapons, microwaves, and transistors the invention of automobiles, financialization of the economy, massive concentrations of wealth in a tiny percentage of ultra-wealthy people and corporation in America.
There is no need to jerk your knee so sharply at the mere mention of a historic fact.