In practice, is there anything different between a king and someone who was born into a wealthy family? Not really. We might have severed the idea of divinity choosing who receives these resources (plenty of billionaires praise god of course for their success all that being said) but we have not done anything about the issue of a small chosen few accumulating the bulk of the gains of our productivity.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/20/ursula-k-le-gu...