Realistically speaking, if the sum total of the world's wealth was to be distributed evenly among every human being on the planet, assuming that the cost of living remained the same, everybody would be impovershed. On a smaller scale, if the sum total of America's wealth was to be distrubuted evenly emong every American, every American would be impovershed.
However, things do not need to be that extreme when 'spreading the wealth around'. The problem is that immense volumes of cash are in the hands of the wrong people--people who don't do anything productive with it. You've got corporate juggernauts cutting corners, jeopardizing the safety of their employees, damaging the environment, all in the name of adding a few hundred million dollars to their personal wallets at the end of every quarter. Some folks just collect Ferrari's.
I believe that something should be done to take money out of the hands of thoroughly useless wealthy people and invest it in the future of the human race. I'm not sure what that something should be, but the present economic model isn't going to keep the planet alive for too long.
