I came here to make this very point, several large scale experiments have already been performed into rank levelling and it seems that the ranks don't stay levelled for very long, and the economic disruption caused takes a long time to settle out.
Whether that leaves the countries better or worse in the mid-term than places where the levelling wasn't done (Russia, China versus US, Europe) is something I'm sure can be long debated.
Whether that leaves the countries better or worse in the mid-term than places where the levelling wasn't done (Russia, China versus US, Europe) is something I'm sure can be long debated.