If the top 1% of the population has more than 50% of the worlds wealth, why can’t the other 99% just take it from them?

Question

Edit: I did not literally mean going to rich people’s houses and rob the money.
But to just pass a law that takes most of their money and redistributes it.

In: Economics

Answer 1

>But to just pass a law that takes most of their money and redistributes it.

Because a) that would solve nothing and b) the situation would return to the initial 1%/50% in two generations.