Think *wealth*, not *dollars* (Score 1)

Your point is valid in a very limited way. The richer and poorer dilemma, has a more real urgency when you mention a society's way of distributing wealth . The balance of a solid democracy in first world countries, controls the concentration of power and wealth to a certain extent. This is a direct factor in social equilibrium. Sure the rich are exorbitantly rich but the poor in most cases cover the basic needs.
Contrast this with the reality of third world countries when most certainly all power and wealth its on the side of a tiny percentage of the population.
In America, its the middle class who bears the burden of supporting both the very poor and the very rich.
This has to do more with observing reality than with any ideology at this point. A measure of a well balanced society, is by far, the equality and access to the wealth it produces.