[erentz]

No one would be talking about it if everyone was still earning a good wage, able to live a decent middle class life, have a family, had no issues visiting a doctor, etc. etc. But they aren't. People in the bottom 90% (or whatever) are feeling very much like they're falling behind, while they watch the top 10% (or whatever) get richer and richer.

If the system were working for most people and they felt they had good lives, I don't even think people would be particularly concerned about the concentration of power that comes with the concentration of wealth because they would see the system working for them.

Certainly we should talk in terms of ensuring there is an adequate floor, rather than in terms of bringing down the ceiling. What's the point of lowering that ceiling if the people at the bottom still can't see a doctor? And raising the floor is indeed what a lot of progressive proposals do aim for (Medicare for All, or Living Wage, or UBI, etc.). But providing that floor requires funding. Funding anything is always redistribution of some kind with the wealthier paying more because that's where the money is.