Someone has to do the work; value is not durable nor zero-sum. Destroying an Earth-threatening asteroid is assuring the continued opportunity of all to produce as they can &amp; will; confiscating the fruits of the productive to give to the idle punishes the former and rewards the latter. What you describe as &quot;liberating&quot; is mutual enslavement of producers &amp; idle to each other. What you describe as &quot;realistic&quot; is unsustainable no less than the extinction event of an asteroid impact.