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There is no solution to this. You either have A) middle class only where no one, no matter how hard they work, can never rise to a higher quality of life but are just simply sustained at "meh, I get by" or B) rich and poor people and a middle class.

You hear people argue that they have more money so they should be taxed and then you hear people argue that they worked hard for that money or inherited it from someone else who did. There lazy people (sluggards, in the Bible, book of Proverbs, for instance) and then there are people that are poor because of no fault of their own. There isn't a cookie cutter solution to this and that is what we've been trying to do and failing on a global scale for centuries.