In the plain, straightforward sense, most income is not distributed at all, either justly or unjustly. Most income in a market economy is earned directly by providing something that someone else wants, and values enough to pay for it, whether what they are paying for is labor, housing or diamonds. People who are unable to understand why John D. Rockefeller in the past, or Bill Gates in the present, received so much money might ask what each of them supplied to others that millions of others were willing to pay for, with their individually modest payments that added up to gigantic fortunes.
