Here’s a story that illustrates this situation. You might have heard it before but it doesn’t hurt to repeat:

One day, a teacher decide to do something different. He gave his class a test and at the end, grabbed the results and said:

“To be fair to everyone and because we are all equal, I will combine all results, get the average and everyone will get the same result.”

Obviously, the brightest students weren’t very happy and the laziest ones cheered.

On the second test, the teacher did the same and the average lowered as the brightest students didn’t put an effort as they weren’t being fairly rewarded for their work.

On the third and last test, the average result was negative and everyone failed that year.

Why? Simply because the brightest students gave up working harder as they weren’t being rewarded and the laziest students did even less as they expected the others to do it for them.

So, hardworking people should be rewarded and lazy people should have to try hard. I’m not taking in account who made fortunes at the cost of immoral situations or the ones that unfortunately can’t work harder for a multitude of reasons. But if we were to give away the hard earned money from some to others that in many cases do not deserve, instead of a balanced society, we would have an even more imbalanced one. And money would lose even more of its value because it was not so much wanted.