LU – do you realize the tone of your comment echos one of the main underlying principles of communism? That people in society with the most amount of money don’t really deserve that money and most likely got it an unfair wait which directly harms those who don’t have a lot of money. The conclusion is that the money must be forcefully taken from the rich and redistributed to those who are not rich.
Let’s ignore the fact that basically every country that tried communism and didn’t end up switching to a free market or incorporating some form of capitalism into it ended up becoming bottomless pits of human suffering and oppressive authoritarianism.
Pretending for a minute that a communist system didn’t lead to mass hunger and gulags, think about these people you are citing as your example – actors and athletes. Did their receiving millions to kick a ball or read some lines in front of a camera lead to the local teacher getting paid less money. If they weren’t given those millions of dollars to kick the ball or perform in front of the camera would those millions have then gone to the teacher instead?
Also keep in mind all that money wouldn’t be going to one teacher in need – it would be distributed. So let’s say you took 1 million dollars away from a professional athlete and distributed it amongst 100,000 teachers (the ratio of teachers to athletes and actors is actually much higher than that but just for argument’s sake…) so you made each of those teachers a cool $10 richer. And you had to take a million dollars away from somebody to do it – is that worth taking that much money from somebody?
You may argue that people with that much money won’t miss it or don’t need all of it. Perhaps, but let’s say that you found a way to suddenly make enough money that you could live the way you want, help your friends or family financially, and donate to all the tzedaka organizations you ever cared about. Now let’s say somebody comes along and wants to take a chunk of this money away (and in effect hamper your ability to do those desirable/praiseworthy goals). How would you feel about that? Would you be happy to give them your resources that you would rather divert to things you care about just because they claim they know how to spend the money better than you do?
You can make the argument that it’s not fair that we live in a world where such people who do mundane things like act or kick a ball make such ridiculously larger salaries than people who do noble things like teach and you could very well be right. But we also live in a world where it’s not fair that people die of cancer (lo aleinu) etc.
Furthermore, Hashem has all the money in the world. If He withholds it from somebody He has His cheshbonot as to why. I think it’s a fundamental lack of betachon in Hashem if not possible heresy to think that the only way He can provide for somebody is if He takes it away from somebody else.