It is interesting to note that The Law of Moses contains two special years which, had anyone ever implemented them, would greatly reduce wealth inequality: 1. the year of release every seven years where debts are forgiven and indentured servitudes are canceled, and 2. the Jubilee year every fifty years, where everyone is returned to their original possessions.
DEU15:01 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. DEU15:02 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release. DEU15:03 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; DEU15:04 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: DEU15:05 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
God. KING JAMES BIBLE TOUCH - KJV (Kindle Locations 8485-8492). Kindle Edition.
LEV25:11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. LEV25:12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. LEV25:13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. LEV25:14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another: LEV25:15 According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: LEV25:16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
God. KING JAMES BIBLE TOUCH - KJV (Kindle Locations 5575-5584). Kindle Edition.
Our bankruptsy laws were based on those mosaic laws(note the every 7 years clause in our bankruptsy codes)