If we really had a world where only a handful of people were able to work creating the machines that made us immensely wealthy, that somehow we would then extract resources from that handful of people to share with the rest of the society. It strikes me as a predistopian a future. I don't think it is realizable, and i think it is im in its extreme. But it is useful to contemplate it, because if you look into the details of many of the ideas that come from the progressive wing of us. Politics and some other country's politics, they really amount to a world in which something like that is going to be a important pillar of it.
Economist and author Daron Acemoglu of MIT discusses with EconTalk host Russ Roberts the challenge of shared prosperity and the policies that could bring about a more inclusive economy. Acemoglu argues for the importance of good jobs over redistribution and makes the case for the policies that could lead to jobs and opportunities across skill levels.