Faith + Reason = Truth

Say there is $65 trillion worth of "stuff" to be distributed among the 6 billion human residents of earth every year.  Every man, woman, and child gets $10,833 worth of stuff per year, and they have to do absolutely nothing to earn it.  Food, shelter, clothing, transportation, heat and a/c, entertainment, the works.  Now, say someone wants to get ahead - to have more than his allotment of stuff.  And he's willing to work.  He realizes he can earn $1 per hour of labor doing things for other people (services that only people can do, rather than "stuff"/physical goods), so he works almost 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, every week of the year, and he now has twice as much stuff.  Then his stuff attracts the attention of other people who want more than their allotment and are also willing to exchange their labor for it, but they don't know how to find the people willing to exchange goods for service or don't know what service to offer.  The 1st guy says "I'll show you where to find them and show you what to do, and I'll pay you $.50 per hour worth of goods."  He pockets the other $.50/hr of course, but it is well-deserved, for he is enabling others to accomplish what they otherwise would not without his assistance.
And so it goes.  Eventually, he accumulates enough excess materials and laborers to enable him to force others to work for him against their will, and those laborers cost him nothing, which bloats his excesses exponentially since it costs him nothing.  He can now rule the world, and no one else can amass the goods or labor necessary to challenge him.

Such was the case with the most powerful civilizations throughout the history of the world, until the slave trade was outlawed by the world's most powerful empire, Britain, 200 years ago this year.  France, England, the U.S. and Spain all outlawed slavery entirely within a 50-year period, over 100 years ago.  Yet slave-like conditions persist today for much of the world's population, which is an absolutely necessary requirement for the condition of some people having 5, 10, or a million times their theoretical equally alloted share of world GDP.
Or is it?  The Industrial Revolution kicked into high hear at roughly the same time that slavery was outlawed in practice by the world powers in the early-mid 1800's (the Industrial Revolution started earlier than that, but this is the period in which it exploded).  Man's ingenuity was forced to come up with replacements for the millions of lost no-cost human laborers, and it did so with technology.
If the rest of today's world were somehow brought up to the same living (and income) standards as the industrial powers enjoy, what similar or even more wondrous revolution in progress might result?  Just think:  what if, instead of earning $1000 per year to spend on goods/services, the world's inhabitants had $10,000 or $20,000?  If the billions of slave laborers currently producing the clothing and footwear and industrial chemicals of the world were suddenly paid the wages of 1st world laborers, costs would certainly spike, but then what would happen?  People of the U.S. and other countries would make due with maybe 5 pairs of shoes instead of 15, or wearing clothes for 2-3 years instead of a season, or eating out at restaurants a little less often.  And the rest of the world would have LOTS more money to spend, pumping it into the world's financial system, resulting in more sales at companies, more R&D, more ingenuity, more potential Edisons or Einsteins or Mozarts in the pool of available genius, less financial disparity, less spectacular haves and MUCH less have-nots.

Might be worth a shot, but for one small detail:  if you were the kind of person who did the kinds of things that are necessary to become one of rulers of the economic world sitting on top of the mountain, and no one could MAKE you do anything against your will for that very reason, would you voluntarily do anything to raise others up a little closer to you, while at the same time lowering yourself a little closer to them?  No.  Sorry for wasting your time here.