Many people say redistribution is a recipe for discredited socialist policies and there are much better ways to deal with inequality. Improve education; provide better and wider access to health care and nutrition; improve access to credit markets through financial inclusion policies; foster access of the less fortunate to public goods like the internet, mobile telephones, clean water and sewerage, electricity, and so forth (through broader provision of such goods by the government). Redistribution is merely a handout by another name: allowing people to survive rather than giving them the wherewithal to improve their lot.