Kurt Vonnegut summed it up
in a nutshell:
'Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.'
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Timequake (1997).
I think what he means by this is that it is disingenuous to speak of wealth-redistribution as if it were the exclusive preserve of governments. The capitalist system, by its nature, redistributes wealth; and overwhelmingly, it redistributes wealth from the poorer sections of society to the rich, because one of the main things that capital is good for is accumulating more capital.