'Deserve to be rich' is the wrong frame. What is a sensible procedure to decide who deserves to be rich and who doesn't? The say so of powerful politicians? 'Raised to the top via a combination of skill, luck and shrewdness' is more accurate. The fundamental problem is that the world is governed by power laws. As the size of the ecosystem grows (hello globalization) at some point it becomes obvious that no humans can effectively control the largest of the emergent entities. We need to break up Facebook, we need to break up the Internet, we need to break up the global economic system. We need to add friction back into the world. A lot of friction.
Currently the worldwide hunger and infant mortality rates are at an all-time low while population is an all-time high (but the growth rate is quickly decreasing, so the threat of overpopulation has passed). Economic growth lifts a substantial chunk of that population out of poverty each year. Are you worried that you might immiserate or kill most of them when you break up the global economic system?
