Great. We agree on that. But how do we achieve that? Taking from the rich and giving to the poor? Never in history this worked.

On the other hand, whenever you have an environment where those who produced wealth were allowed to keep it, you'll see general prosperity.

The problem is: who's producing wealth? In Brazil, you can argue that a factory pipeline worker is the one producing the wealth, yet he's able to keep but a very small percentage of what he produces.

Arbitrarily taking wealth from one and giving it to other's is not really good idea, I agree with you. The "how" is the whole problem. In my opinion it's the biggest open problem of human kind.

Sorry, but no. What differentiates the factory worker from Brazil or India or Malaysia or Sweden? Nothing. Why should there be any difference in what percentage of the final cut is his? Is the Brazilian factory worker able to produce more wealth without the machinery, equipment, marketing people, product designers and everything else that is part of any supply channel? No, he isn't.

The problem in Brazil is precisely this mentality that keeps us with a half century old labor code and absolutely zero incentive for entrepreneurship.

The Welfare State is dead, see http://workforall.net/ScandinavianModel.html

The rich and powerful themselves have to decide to help the poor.