What that line of thought misses is that wealth is built off of the backs of labor. The social contract between capital and labor has always been "I'll put in the capital, and I'll pay you fairly for your labor from the wealth we create."
But as decades of economic research and lived reality has shown us, that contract has been broken for a while: productivity has surged and so has the wealth it creates, but wages -- i.e. the wealth distributed to the labor -- have grown very slowly. (There are a dozen other metrics you could use to show this trend.) This has led to extreme wealth inequality and all the problems we see today.
As such, fair redistribution of wealth was the norm once, people are only saying that that earlier balance should be brought back.
That has nothing to do with the other examples you gave. I mean, outside of some truly disturbing scenarios, restricting Tiger Woods' ability to have sex has nothing to do with how much sex I get.
But as decades of economic research and lived reality has shown us, that contract has been broken for a while: productivity has surged and so has the wealth it creates, but wages -- i.e. the wealth distributed to the labor -- have grown very slowly. (There are a dozen other metrics you could use to show this trend.) This has led to extreme wealth inequality and all the problems we see today.
As such, fair redistribution of wealth was the norm once, people are only saying that that earlier balance should be brought back.
That has nothing to do with the other examples you gave. I mean, outside of some truly disturbing scenarios, restricting Tiger Woods' ability to have sex has nothing to do with how much sex I get.