> What is a fair distribution of wealth?

I'd say one in which the strides of workers were not systematically
rendered useless by illegal activities of gov and business corruption.
There's what, 6 billion people in the world? USA has only 0.3 billion.
That means any time minimum wage threatens to work it's way over
starvation level, all the gov has to do is turn a blind eye to a few 10's
of millions of unskilled workers flooding into the country. There,
problem solved. Dramatically reducing the demand for American
workers is a nice way of keeping the rabble in line.

> What does America have to do with a free economy?

Couldn't have said it better.