In reality Robin Hood “stole” what the government had taken from the peasants in confiscatory taxes and returned the money to them. The Zorro legend is exactly the same.
That truth cannot be repeated often enough.
Exactly. The parasitic, predatory political aristocracy comprised the rich at that time. There was no business class or separation of economy and state. Robin Hood, real or not, was (like Ragnar Danneskjold in Atlas Shrugged) just taking back stolen property and returning it to the productive.