“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment … all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wealth is agile, you are not.

Wealth can move any which way around in the economy. Left alone—or manipulated by an invisible hand—it concentrates. it bubbles up, it doesn’t trickle down. That myth was invented by people who benefit from the bubble-up truth to keep those who don’t, doing what needs to be done to keep the system as it is. In this economic but not political sense, they are Conservatives. 

Then there are economic Progressives, they are the folks who want to distribute incoming wealth differently. These days as capital (what one has) is valued more than labor (what one does) progressives want…