In reply to mypyrex:
Even if you could wipe the World slate clean today, it wouldn't take long for winners and losers to reappear. Differences in abilities, resources and attitudes as well as in location, climate, population density would very rapidly establish something like the status quo under free market capitalism.
Human nature is a relatively fixed quantity, sadly. We look out for ourselves, our families, our tribe (however defined) and most often do so in competition rather than cooperation with others. Witness our every day fondness for rankings and league tables as a low key example of this.
Even 'consumer choice' breeds waste - why use resources to compete with another brand for sales ( creating winners and losers, but needlessly manufacturing similar cars, helmets or phones, say)? And waste ultimately leads to resource shortage and competition.
Something like WW2 utility production standards would have to be adopted globally until everyone has all the necessities - and even then there would be black markets in luxury items. Capitalism can't operate without wasteful speculative production that creates losers as a by-product, and human nature won't tolerate a benign communism ( it's beyond us). So token based economics reflects this. Re-deal the tokens mid-game and watch them redistribute back to how they are now.
The main lesson from history is that we don't learn lessons from history.