I wonder what the world would be like if (magically) the option for the top x% of people to invest their money globally was no longer available, and they were forced to find something to do with the money domestically. If wealth distribution is such that the masses lack the productivity and therefore income to buy your innovative product, perhaps then these top x% would be motivated to work together to influence society in a manner to increase individual productivity, which they could then make their larger-than-average rate of return on.
Something like the situation of the unusually high wages Henry Ford paid his workers back in the day: https://www.npr.org/2014/01/27/267145552/the-middle-class-to...