In fact human earning power can be measured with a thermometer !

A democratic socialist government of the United States would immediately cancel all lottery winners - past , present , and future. You will own exactly what you can EARN by a normal distribution curve of human mental and physical labor. Nobody will EARN even a million dollars a year anymore than they can sustain a body temperature of 120 degrees ! There is a RATIONAL way to distribute the collective wealth of humanity . By the way, in the world of SCIENCE calories are the objective measure of EFFORT ( or energy ) - human or inhuman , or brainlessly mechanical like the wind . There is no meter on the Sun .