We need to fix our currency. We use debt based currency now, because we can never run out of debt. However that causes the monopoly game mentality. So does Gold, or wheat based currency. BitCoin is another debt based currency with the same problems.
A successful economy will serve the entire population it affects. Leaving no individual willing to task in poverty, and never limiting the most productive individual in wealth accumulation.
The only commodity that can properly be used as currency is labor, human labor.
A tree in the forest is worth nothing to an economy, without a human working to cut it, transporting it, milling it, distributing it and selling it. Gold in the ground is worth nothing to an economy unless human labor works it in some fashion. Wheat has no value unless human labor works it.
How can human labor be used as currency?
By defining the base unit of currency as the value of the minimum value of one hour of labor. Then we define the minimum value of one hour of human labor as that which can purchase the goods and services required for reasonable existence of one individual with a single dependent for four hours.
With that currency system in place, every individual willing to work at ANY task can never be forced to live in poverty. Nor can any highly productive individual be limited to that minimum. A highly productive individual is simply worth more, and can become wealthy, however their wealth can never come at the expense of the least productive.
Note that I do not advocate handouts to lazy or criminal individuals, work is expected, of SOME sort, whether that is sweeping streets or reading to children.
As long as we accept a currency based on the zero sum equation, there will be rich people, who will accumulate wealth that is no longer available to the poor. Rich become richer, and the poor become more poor. That is a fact, and it can be proven. If we use a labor based currency, the rich can become as rich as they wish, however the value of the minimum labor can never be sold at a price the poor cannot afford. Gold, wheat, BitCoin, can always, and will always be sold at prices that the rich can afford, and above what the poor can afford.