We should do all we can to nurture the gifted and talented, and encourage them to use their gifts for the benefit of humanity, by rewarding them as they produce.
This is what a free market, tempered by Judeo/Christian values does.
Pulling down the most talented, while encouraging them to use their talents to become the oppressors in society, is horribly destructive. This is what collectivism, such as Fascism/communism/socialism does.
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
Robert Heinlein.
That is a quite compelling, succinct and accurate summary.