Technically they're right...
Widescale redistribution of wealth demonstrably doesn't work, but the thing is right now the problem has been redistributed into the hands of a select few and it's killing everyone else.
A normal distribution of wealth would be everyone having enough by default, and people being able to earn extra through labor/services.
With a rigid tax system to ensure no one can control an oversized proportion of wealth to the detrement of everyone else.
Don't let them trick you into thinking the current reality is the norm or a standard. We can go the other direction even faster than we got here.