I was about to fully agree whith what you say until I reached

> If you do want to be a bystander, you still have a responsibility to make sure that power goes to people with a grow-the-pie mindset...

If wealth always goes upwards, one fine day people will reach for their pitchforks and those who are on the other side of the wealth destructors will loose everything.

It's an equilibrium we should aim at, neither wealth destruction nor up flow to the already powerful